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The holiest of all holidays are those

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.

You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time.

So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

The best fame is a writer’s fame: it’s enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough that you get interrupted when you eat.

A beginning, a muddle, and an end.

When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed,

[A pun] is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

Books think for me.

Your borrowers of books —those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise; he is always ready to go.

Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Colour has taken hold of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me for ever.

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

’Tisn’t beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just It. Some women’ll stay in a man’s memory if they once walked down a street.

When ’Omer smote ’is bloomin’ lyre,

I could not dig: I dared not rob:

It’s clever, but is it Art?

Poems are made by fools like me,

Poems are made by fools like me,

I think that I shall never see

In free society art is not a weapon … Artists are not engineers of the soul.