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Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

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I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others.

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Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

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What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

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Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

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The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.

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Very few people can afford to be poor.

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You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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I do not know what I think until I write it.

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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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