George Bernard Shaw Quotes

How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .

George Bernard Shaw

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• A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.

  

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• All love is unrequited. All of it.

  

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• I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.

  

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• How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • English
  • Fish