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T. E. Lawrence
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T. E. Lawrence

“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.”

- T. E. Lawrence

Source/Notes: Seven Pillars of Wisdom: (2013 edition), Bybliotech - ISBN: 9781628409390
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T. E. Lawrence

“All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!”

- T. E. Lawrence

Source/Notes: Letter to Bruce Rogers (20 August 1931)
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T. E. Lawrence

“I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.”

- T. E. Lawrence

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T. E. Lawrence

“Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.”

- T. E. Lawrence

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T. E. Lawrence

“It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.”

- T. E. Lawrence

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T. E. Lawrence

“Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.”

- T. E. Lawrence

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T. E. Lawrence

“Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.”

- T. E. Lawrence

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“Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.”

- T. E. Lawrence

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“The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.”

- T. E. Lawrence

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“The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.”

- T. E. Lawrence

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T. E. Lawrence

“This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.”

- T. E. Lawrence

Source/Notes: Seven Pillars of Wisdom: (2013 edition), Bybliotech - ISBN: 9781628409390
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“To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.”

- T. E. Lawrence

Source/Notes: Letter (1 April 1935); published in The Letters of T.E. Lawrence (1988), edited by Malcolm Brown.
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T. E. Lawrence

“To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.”

- T. E. Lawrence

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“This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.”

- T. E. Lawrence

Source/Notes: The Revolt in the Desert (1927) Ch. 35
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