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I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence. ↗

— Vernon Howard

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It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone. ↗

— Sam Houston

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