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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

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If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

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Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

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If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

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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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You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

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

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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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I do not know what I think until I write it.

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When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

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A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her

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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

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The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

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Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

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

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If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

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