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People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.
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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A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.
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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
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The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.
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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
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Fear is choosing the safe course
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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.
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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.
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I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.
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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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Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.
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If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.
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With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.
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Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
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It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.
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You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy
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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
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The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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