Quotes 421 till 440 of 655.
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The biggest thrill wasn't in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday.
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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
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The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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The English have a miraculous power to turn wine into water.
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The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.
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The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.
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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
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The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
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The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.
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