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All the great words, it seemed to Connie, were cancelled for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, all these great, dynamic words were half dead now, and dying from day to day.

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885–1930), British author. Privately printed in Florence (1928). Lady Chatterley's Lover, ch. 6, Bantam Books (1980).

Connie Chatterley is the novel's heroine.

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