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Laurence Housman Quotes

Laurence Housman quotes

English Playwright July 18, 1865 – February 20, 1959

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I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily. Laurence Housman
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
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. Laurence Housman
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. Laurence Housman
The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale. Laurence Housman
That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front. Laurence Housman
Laurence Housman quote: "If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written..."
If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write. Laurence Housman
Laurence Housman quote: "I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may..."
I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old. Laurence Housman
Laurence Housman quote: "On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales..."
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. Laurence Housman
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. Laurence Housman

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