It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.
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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
If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.
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Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
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I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.
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Before the war ended common sense had rescued me from any belief that war could do the human race, or my country, any good whatever.
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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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