God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
ATTRIBUTION:
D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885–1930), British author. Letter, May 30, 1922, written from Australia. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, vol. 4, eds. James T. Boulton, E. Mansfield, and W. Roberts (1987).
