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I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

— James Agate Ego 6 (1944)

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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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