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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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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Trust
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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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A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War. – Charles Inglis

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My Brat Pack buddies and I didnt exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure. – Judd Nelson

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All human actions are equivalent… and all are on principle doomed to failure. – Carl Sandburg

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One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that theyre a lead. I think thats a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience. – Melissa Rosenberg

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