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The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

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What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

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Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

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The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

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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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Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

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English is the easiest language to speak badly.

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

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If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

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He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

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