Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWBoth optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.
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When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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