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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

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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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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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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

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Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

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You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.

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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

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What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

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We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

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How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .

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What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.

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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

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Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

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I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

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