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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

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I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

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International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

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Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

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He is every other inch a gentleman.

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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

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A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

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Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

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Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

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I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Author

Born: December 21st, 1892

Died: March 15th, 1983

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