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Laurence Housman

"It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony."

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"It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony."

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"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic."

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"I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation."

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"A few cold words on yonder stone, A corpse as cold as they can be - Vain words, and mouldering dust, alone - Can this be all that's left of thee? O, no! thy spirit lingers still Where'er thy sunny smile was seen: There's less of darkness, less of chill On earth, than if thou hadst not been.Thou breathest in my bosom yet, And dwellest in my beating heart; And, while I cannot quite forget, Thou, darling, canst not quite depart."

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"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."

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"Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes."

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"When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life."

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"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."

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"I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me."

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"At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life."

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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."
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"Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance."
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"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."
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"I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe."
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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."
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"My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine."
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"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
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"For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own."
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"If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write."
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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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