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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

— George Bernard Shaw

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  1. You in America should trust to that volcanic political instinct which I have divined in you.
  2. It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.
  3. An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
  4. The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
  5. I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
  6. The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
  7. God help England if she had no Scots to think for her!
  8. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the pe…

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  • writing
  • ideas
  • craft
  • quality
  • theater

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