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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. ↗

— George Bernard 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 am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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