Quote by Laurence Housman
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training,

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. – Laurence Housman

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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. – Laurence Housman

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Religion
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Suicide is possible, but not probable hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment. – Laurence Housman

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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. – Laurence Housman

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America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure. – Toby Young

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Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think Im a failure. – William Hurt

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None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind witness whats going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature. – Morris West

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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. – Victor Kiam

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. – Author Unknown

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Every morning I start with a drink from my cup of sunshine, to remind myself of who I am before I step into the world of “this is who we think you are.” – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

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