George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Literature
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I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.
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All great art and literature is propaganda.
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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
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All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.
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I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
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Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.
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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
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