The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. — D.H. Lawrence · Skopia

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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.

1923

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Lawrence, D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature. Thomas Seltzer, 1923, ch. 5.

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