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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

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I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

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If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

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I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

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Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

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The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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The supreme vice is shallowness.

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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

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Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

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He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

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Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.

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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

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