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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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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Religion
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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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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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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him. – George Bernard Shaw

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Youll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure. – Carlos Ghosn

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Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success. – James Dyson

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I know acts and Im not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and its considered a failure and theyre dropped and thats really a shame. – Gerry Beckley

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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. – Leo Tolstoy

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Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comet in the morning. Psalms 30:5 – Bible

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