- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.
- Disappointment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020