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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.
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[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me
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The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.
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I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.
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We have quite the same ideas. No I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
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Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.
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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic life under a bad government is always so.
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When good Americans die, they go to Paris Where do bad Americans go? They stay in America
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I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.
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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
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My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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