On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
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The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.
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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.
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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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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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