"I was just then going through a healthy……" — Laurence Housman
"I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result."
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Laurence Housman
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29 Quotes by Laurence Housman
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Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every…
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For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is…
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I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late:…
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I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.
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I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a…
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I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the…
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If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.
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It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform…
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A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.
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A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.
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Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be…
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But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays…
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