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

Other quotes by Laurence Housman

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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Failure
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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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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need. – Harvey Cox

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Religion is induced insanity. – Madalyn Murray OHair

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Religion

Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior? – James Donovan

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Religion

Im interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. Im not so interested in the comforting kind of religion. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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Religion

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When youre dead, youre dead. Thats it. – Marlene Dietrich

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. – Oprah Winfrey

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Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. Its just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. – Daniel Libeskind

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