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'A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good'
'Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.'
'If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.'
'In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.'
'Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time'
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Wimbldeon, London
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. - George Bernard Shaw
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