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As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

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Genius is born-not paid

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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

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The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

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Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

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I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

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Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

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Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.

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I'm not nearly young enough to know everything

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Prism! Where is that baby?

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Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

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