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George Bernard Shaw
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
— Candida, Act I (1898)
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
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Lived 1856–1950, aged 94United Kingdom
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He turned the stage into a platform for ideas that made audiences squirm — then come back for more. Shaw wrote over sixty plays that dissected marriage, class, war, and religion with surgical wit, and spawned an adjective: Shavian, shorthand for argument dressed as entertainment.
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Born in Dublin in 1856, Shaw moved to London at twenty and spent years failing as a novelist while teaching himself to think. By the mid-1880s he'd found his voice as a theatre critic and joined the Fabian Society, writing pamphlets for gradual socialism. His first stage success came in 1894 with Arms and the Man; influenced by Ibsen, he used drama as a vehicle for his political and social ideas. Major Barbara, Pygmalion, and Saint Joan followed, earning him the Nobel Prize in 1925. He courted controversy constantly — promoting eugenics, denouncing both sides in the First World War, and by the…
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George Bernard Shaw
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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
— You Never Can Tell, Act I (1898)
George Bernard Shaw
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I had not achieved a success; but I provoked an uproar; and the sensation was so agreeable that I resolved to try again.
— Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant, Vol. I, Preface (1898)
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
— Answers to Nine Questions (September 1896), answers to nine questions submitted by Clarence Rook, who had interviewed him in 1895
George Bernard Shaw
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Die Walküre is endured by the average man because it contains four scenes for which he would sit out a Scotch sermon, or even a House of Commons debate.
— Comments after attending the 1896 Bayreuth Festival. Quoted in Carolyn Abbatte, ["Visits to Valhalla: The Ectasy And the Agony", The New
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