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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

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It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

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I have a simple taste, only the best.

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A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.

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No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

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I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

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The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

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Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

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However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

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

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It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

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I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

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It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]

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It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

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