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Laurence Housman

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Laurence Housman, a renowned British playwright, was born on July 18, 1865, and passed away on February 20, 1959. His works are known for their profound psychological insights and unique dramatic style, which have had a profound impact on the British theater scene.

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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.”

Writing Years Firsts Art Five Six Training Disappointment Alternatives Right Direction

Author:Laurence Housman

“I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.”

May Young Dies Seventies Die Young

Author:Laurence Housman

“If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three.”

Ifs Mother Three Father

Author:Laurence Housman

“If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.”

“Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness, O be Thou our aid.”

Men Life Made Light Form Spirit Father Nations Darkness Creation Eternal Eternity Moved Aids Thick Rulers Blindness Covering Spirit Of Life

Author:Laurence Housman

“For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.”

Lasts My Own Half Greater Brother Benefits Reputation Doubtful

Author:Laurence Housman

“I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage.”

Men Writing Results Stage Late Letters Too Late

Author:Laurence Housman

“I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.”

Believe Universe Force I Believe Love Is Motive

Author:Laurence Housman

“I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.”

Writing Firsts Long Book Form Letters Writing A Book Comeback

Author:Laurence Housman

“I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Stills Nations Race Human Race

Author: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.”

Trying Results Youth Healthy Possession Reactions Tales Obsession Orthodox Imaginary Tribes Orthodoxy

Author:Laurence Housman

“If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.”

Ifs Want Writing Years Written Ten

Author:Laurence Housman

“It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.”

Thinking World Should Trying Mind Book Natural Twenties Reform Generous

Author:Laurence Housman

“A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.”

Goodness Saint Attractive

Author:Laurence Housman

“A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.”

Doe Teacher Teaching Goodness Saint Appreciation Attractive Great Teacher

Author:Laurence Housman

“Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.”

Knows Has Beens Wanted Regret Police Court Prison Bounds Arrested Prosecution

Author:Laurence Housman

“But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.”

Giving Play My Own Pleasure Audience Greater Feet Reader Activity Appreciation Reviews Stimulus Lecturer

Author:Laurence Housman

“The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.”

Littles Form Social Modern Materials Scales Appeals Satire Idolatry

Author:Laurence Housman

About the Author

Born: July 18, 1865
Died: February 20, 1959
Known for: Playwright
Quotes: 18

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