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Quote by D.H. Lawrence
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made som

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. – D.H. Lawrence

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I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating. – D.H. Lawrence

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One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. – D.H. Lawrence

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Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. – Simone de Beauvoir

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. – Katharine Whitehorn, “Nought for Homework,” Roundabout, 1962

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You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty. – Cecil Baxter

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We labor to make a house a home, then every time we’re expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves. – Marcel Proust

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