| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 35112 |
| QUOTATION: | No man, said Birkin, cuts another man’s throat unless he wants to cut it, and unless the other man wants it cutting. This is a complete truth. It takes two people to make a murder: a murderer and a murderee.... And a man who is murderable is a man who has in a profound if hidden lust desires to be murdered. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885–1930), British author. Originally published by M. Secker (1921). Women in Love, ch. 2, Penguin Books (1987).
Rupert Birkin is speaking to Gerald Crich. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Lawrence Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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