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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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I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

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Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

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All Artists are Anarchists.

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As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.

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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

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An index is a great leveller.

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There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.

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Style is effectiveness of assertion.

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Youth is just wasted on young people.

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We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

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He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

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

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You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

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Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.

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