Quote by Laurence Housman
It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a

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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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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Religion
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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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When Im not writing, I read loads of fiction, but Ive been writing quite constantly lately so Ive been reading a lot of nonfiction – philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies. – Irvine Welsh

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Religion

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite. – Sri Aurobindo

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Religion

Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I dont know. But its natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion. – Lisa Bonet

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Religion

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. – Hans Kung

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Religion

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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches. – Harold Evans

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A psychotic is a guy whos just found out whats going on. – William S. Burroughs

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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. – Anatole France

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Travel

Its like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. Youre running as fast as you can, and someones trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you. – Michael Chang

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