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"I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old."
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"We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for every one of us to be still, that if any thing should he said, every one may the better hear."
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"The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it."
"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
"Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past."
"Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form."
"Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping."
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"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."
"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."
"My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative."
"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."
"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."
"It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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