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The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

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There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

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A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.

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God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

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You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

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I work as my father drank.

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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

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We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

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What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

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Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

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A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

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I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

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The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

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