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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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
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
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I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.
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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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