D. H. Lawrence Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: September 11, 1885 - March 2, 1930
Birthday: September 11
Death: March 2
Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.
source: D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.57, Cambridge University Press
topic: Rip, Real, Snakes, Recklessness, Slough
