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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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Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

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Why not give Christianity a trial?

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Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

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Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.

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I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

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All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

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What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.

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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

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

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Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

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To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

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Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.

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Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

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An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

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