If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.
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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
The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved.
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At that time I had no notion that I should ever come to live in Somerset - to live actually within the range of what then lay before me.
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But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.
Laurence Housman
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
Laurence Housman
My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.
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