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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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 think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what youre good at. – Louis C. K.

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Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance. – Jim Clyburn

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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. – Daniel Webster

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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. – John Dewey

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A hungry stomach has no ears. – Proverb

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Ill go to see movies, but I also love being at home on my couch and pausing every 10 minutes to pee. – Tim Heidecker

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