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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

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God is on the side of the big battalions.

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Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

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I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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Why not give Christianity a trial?

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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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My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

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I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

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Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

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Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

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You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

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For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

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Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?

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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

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