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The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

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Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

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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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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

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Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

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My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

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An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.

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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

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A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.

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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

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Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

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Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

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