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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

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He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

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Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

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I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.

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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

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The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

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I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

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The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

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God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

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Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

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Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

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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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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

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Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

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