I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. WELLSAffliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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