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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses. ↗

— 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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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. ↗

— 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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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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