“I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.”

— D.H. Lawrence

Letter to Blanche Jennings (15 April 1908), Letters of D.H. Lawrence (1979), edited by James T. Boulton

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English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary crit… 1885–1930

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