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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. ↗

— 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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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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It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department. ↗

— Robert Shea

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I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people! ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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