"Why not give Christianity a trial?"
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"Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses."
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"As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses."
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"Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present."
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"What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!"
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"A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy."
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"You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason."
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"It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing."
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"All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?"
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"If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all."
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"A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world."
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"We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet."
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"Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage."
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"Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die."
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"It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance."
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"I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases."
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"Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things."
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"We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know."
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"We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language."
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"When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine."
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