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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

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A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

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It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

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All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

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Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

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You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

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Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

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I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

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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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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

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I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands .

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Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

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