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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.
Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.
Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick.
Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
I'll put my record of service up against anyone, bar none.
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.
True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.
Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.
A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.
A good way to vilify women is by attacking their sexuality.
I have a credibility on the subject that most people don't.
Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.
I'd like to think that the best bunker buster is a diplomat.
That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.
The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.
Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.
When I sound real, I'm fake, and when I sound fake, I'm real.
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.
I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.
The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.
The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
Nobody reads a reference book to be amused, much less charmed.
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.
The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.
Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.
You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.
Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal.
In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.
There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer.
When people start reconfiguring marriage, there's no going back.
We can be critical of the things that we love. That is possible.
Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.