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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

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A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

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A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

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In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

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Morality is not respectability.

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After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.

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A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

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It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

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Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

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Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

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The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

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Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

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