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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

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When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

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A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

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I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

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Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

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It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

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I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

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[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

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When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

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Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.

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

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Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

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We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

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I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

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