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Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

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With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

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Happiness and Beauty are by-products.

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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

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I work as my father drank.

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Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.

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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

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We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

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Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

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Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human raceis imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads.

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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

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A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

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We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

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All progress means war with society.

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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

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