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Oscar Wilde

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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.


— Oscar Wilde


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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.


— Oscar Wilde


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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.


— Oscar Wilde


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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.


— Oscar Wilde


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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.


— Oscar Wilde


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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.


— Oscar Wilde


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When good Americans die they go to Paris.


— Oscar Wilde


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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.


— Oscar Wilde


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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.


— Oscar Wilde


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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.


— Oscar Wilde


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About Oscar Wilde

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One evening after discussing depictions of Salome throughout history he returned to his hotel to notice a blank copybook lying on the desk and it occurred to him to write down what he had been saying. " which Wilde had begun in 1887 was first publiOscar Wilded in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in July 1889. tour of Patience and selling this most charming aesthete to the American public.

At the turn of the 1890s he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays and incorporated themes of decadence duplicity and beauty into his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. As a spokesman for aestheticism he tried his hand at various literary activities: he publiOscar Wilded a book of poems lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist.

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