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America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me.... The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you—no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885–1930), British author. letter, Oct. 19, 1922, to poet Amy Lowell. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, vol. 4, eds. James T. Boulton, E. Mansfield, and W. Roberts (1987).

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