Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWLiquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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A drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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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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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
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