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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

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Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

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When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

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We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

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I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

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Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

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Fear is choosing the safe course

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When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.

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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

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You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

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It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

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Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

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You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

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