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If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

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Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

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The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

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You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

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The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

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Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

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Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

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I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

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Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

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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. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

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In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

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Music is the brandy of the damned.

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You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

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