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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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England and America are two countries separated by the same language. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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I am involved in Greenpeace. And I just recently completely switched my diet over to near-veganism. So you try to do little things that you can. I recycle every single day. Every single thing in my house that can be recycled is. ↗

— Lindsey Shaw

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