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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
George Bernard Shaw
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George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
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For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.
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If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.
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