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The worst of failure in this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

— James Agate Ego 7 (1945)

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On von Stauffenberg's bomb plot.

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

Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.

Ego 4 (1940)

I like listening to it just as I like looking at a fuchsia drenched with rain.

Ego 8 (1947)

The producer. This is a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it.

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