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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

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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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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

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In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

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The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.

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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

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Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

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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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You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

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Principles without programs are platitudes.

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All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

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Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

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