“We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free from their authority.”

— D.H. Lawrence

Letter http://books.google.com/books?id=U-SLXgFQ0hoC&q="We+have+to+hate+our+immediate+predecessors+to+get+free+from+their+authority"&pg=PA509#v=onepage to Edward Garnett (1 February 1913)

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

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