"Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces."

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Source : March 10, 1933 entry in "Ego". Book by James Agate, 1935.

James Agate

#Play Quotes #Pay Quotes

“Be yourself and you will find, who minds doesn't matter and who matters won't mind.”

Source : Rachel Simmons (2004). “Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write about Bullies, Cliques, Popularity, and Jealousy”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I pulled him closer to me, wrapping my arms around him, kissing him just as desperately as he was kissing me. Like if we could just love long enough and hard enough and deep enough, then the world outside would never, could never hurt us.”
“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.”
“Happiness and joy comes to you when it moves through you. There is no other pathway--and that's the miracle. You will have a number of opportunities in the days just ahead to be a vehicle of happiness and joy for another. Step right into that. Be the source of that. As you bring others to a smile, so, too, will you bring yourself. The method is foolproof.”

Source : FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jan 27, 2015
“I have never had anything done. I've been asked if I had breast implants. Whether I did or not, it's nobody's business but my own.”
“We've seen in Europe after the recent terrorist attacks a certain retrogression in human rights. It depends on how threatened the Turks feel. For example, Turkey became much more tolerant towards Kurdish nationalists when the killing of Turkish soldiers stopped in southeastern Turkey and body bags stopped arriving. Now, since June there's been a revival of Kurdish attacks on Turkish troops - something like 150 people have been killed by terrorists supplied from and operating out of bases in northern Iraq. So Turks are feeling much less tolerant of Kurdish nationalism.”

Source : "The Turks Today". Interview With Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. October 26, 2005.
“I'm lucky to have worked with all the people that I have, and I really love what I do, and that is very important, too.”
“I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.”

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