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

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

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

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On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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