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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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We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be. ↗

— 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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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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