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I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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HIGGINS I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical. Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another. PICKERING At what, for example? HIGGINS Oh, Lord knows! I suppose the woman wa..
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George Bernard Shaw |
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Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. To women he is half vivisector, half vampire. He gets into intimate relations with them to study them, to strip the mask of convention from them, to surprise their inmost secrets, knowing that they have the power to rouse his deepest creative energies, to rescue him from his cold reason, ..
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love
hubris
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George Bernard Shaw |
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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
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George Bernard Shaw |
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I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.
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respect
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George Bernard Shaw |
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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
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equality
manners
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George Bernard Shaw |
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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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But to admire a strong person
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George Bernard Shaw |
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Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.
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god
life
lonely
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George Bernard Shaw |
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e194757
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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
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progress
golding-bright
ice-skating
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George Bernard Shaw |
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a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
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poverty
social-class
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George Bernard Shaw |
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She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...
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George Bernard Shaw |
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I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
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motivational
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George Bernard Shaw |
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It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.
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social-anxiety
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George Bernard Shaw |
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c3828af
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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance..
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George Bernard Shaw |
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Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?
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music
hell
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George Bernard Shaw |
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You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.
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men
love
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George Bernard Shaw |
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The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them. They may fail in emergencies; but life is not one long emergency: it is mostly a string of situations for which no exceptional strength is needed, and with which even rather weak people can cope if they have a stronger partner to help them out.
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strength
pygmalion
george-bernard-shaw
shaw
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George Bernard Shaw |
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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
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education
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George Bernard Shaw |
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The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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We are all savages
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George Bernard Shaw |
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Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
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reality
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George Bernard Shaw |
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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you'll get nothing else.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and ..
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George Bernard Shaw |
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Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.
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heaven
eternity
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George Bernard Shaw |
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We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time. If there's anything going, and I put in for a bit of it, it's always the same story: "You're undeserving; so you can't have it." Buy my needs is as great as the most deserving widow's that ever got money out of six different charities in one week for the death of the same husband. I don't need ..
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George Bernard Shaw |
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If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
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nature
barbarism
customs
self-centered
law
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George Bernard Shaw |
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ddd6e9a
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I have never sneered in my life. Sneering doesn't become either the human face or the human soul. I am expressing my righteous contempt for Commercialism. I don't and wont trade in affection. You call me a brute because you couldn't buy a claim on me by fetching my slippers and finding my spectacles. You were a fool: I think a woman fetching a man's slippers is a disgusting sight: did I ever fetch your slippers? I think a good deal more of ..
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George Bernard Shaw |
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The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.
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revolution
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George Bernard Shaw |
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Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespear and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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PICKERING:Excuse the straight question, Higgins. Are you a man of good character where women are concerned? HIGGINS [moodily]:Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?
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George Bernard Shaw |