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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Playwright

Born: July 18th, 1865

Died: February 20th, 1959

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