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The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

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I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

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There is only good art and mediocre art.

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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

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Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

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A flower blossoms for its own joy.

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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

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That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.

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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.

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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

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A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

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I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

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