George Bernard Shaw quote: In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language the struggle of the adept is to ...

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language the struggle of the ade...

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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say and then to say it with the utmost levity.

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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.