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Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

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I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

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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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I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

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The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

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The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

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We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

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There is only one universal passion fear.

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Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

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It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.

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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

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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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A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

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The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

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