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The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself.

— James Agate

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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)

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

Ego 7 (1945)

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.

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