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All great art and literature is propaganda.

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Syllables govern the world.

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Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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

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Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

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People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

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You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

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The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

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Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

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It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

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Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

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I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

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Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

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