It must be nice, Queenie thought, to be one thing or another, to know where you belonged.
It was soul-destroying work, apt to turn anyone cynical, for the sad, awful truth was that there was hardly any evidence at all of talent in the slush pile and plenty of proof, for those who needed it...
It was the face of a nonreligious ascetic, capable of enduring hardship and pain beyond what most men would even want to contemplate, a true believer in other people’s causes, a curious combination of...
Lawrence's concern about the loss of twenty Arabs may seem odd during a war in which British war dead would exceed 750,000, but he felt strongly that Our men were not materials, like soldiers, but fri...
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
Almost the first thing I learned about being an editor was that it was hard work. To be sure, ditchdiggers and miners have it worse, but for sheer, numbing, endless (I do not, deliberately, say mindle...
Across some of the harshest and most difficult terrain in the world, led by a man who already had a price on his head.
A man who gives himself to the possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life… . He is not one of them… . In my case my effort for these years to live in the dress of Arabs, and to imitate their mental found...
Lawrence: Clayton, I've decided to go off alone to Damascus, hoping to get killed on the way: for all sakes try and clear this show up before it goes further. We are calling them to fight for us on a...
This night, however, she surprised me by getting down on her poor old knees (as she always referred to them) beside me and told me to pray with her for the safety of the British Army in France. Her ow...
Writers are always outsiders and probably ought to be, since only outsiders see things clearly: the people who publish them, or make movies, or produce plays are always richer and more powerful, howev...
In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.
The more you can dream, the more you can do.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Cats don't think they're owned by anybody. Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always. That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.
Lawrence: A man who gives himself to the possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life. In my case my effort for these years to live in the dress of Arabs, and to imitate their mental foundation, quitted me...
Like any man who has two masters with opposing interests, he was torn between them.
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
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