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In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

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I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.

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For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

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In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

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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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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

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There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.

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The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

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Every woman is wrong until she cries.

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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

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The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

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And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

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The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

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The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

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Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

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