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"I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old."
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"You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke."
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"Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking."
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"It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice."
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"It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience."
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"Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability."
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"You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut."
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"I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old."
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"I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented."
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"I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me."
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"The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples."
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"But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews."
Experience
"It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment."
Home
"The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale."
Politics
"My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative."
Art
"I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage."
Thought
"If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy."
Books
"The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved."
Family
"Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers."
Life
"Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance."
Wife
"I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result."
Religion
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