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All great art and literature is propaganda.
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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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.
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Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
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If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.
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Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
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The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.
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I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
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I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.
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Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
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Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.
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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
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