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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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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I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing Ive ever done. Once I was married, I didnt want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long. – Shannen Doherty

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Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. – Edward Dowden

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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? – G.K. Chesterton

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. – Eric Hoffer

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