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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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