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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

~Oscar Wilde

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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

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Writing bores me so.

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Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

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A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

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I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 16th, 1854

Died: November 30th, 1900

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