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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.
Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to).
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The 100% American is 99% idiot.
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
Better never than late.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.
I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.
The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.
When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.
Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.
