Аннотация
FROM THE PAGES OF PYGMALION AND THREE OTHER PLAYS
I am, and have always been, and shall now always be, a revolutionary writer, because our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or malexperienced dupes, our power wielded by cowards and weaklings, and our honor false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.
(from Shaw’s preface to Major Barbara, pages 43 — 44)
“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
(from Major Barbara, page 127)
“You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.”
(from Major Barbara, page 132)
If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.
(from Shaw’s preface to The Doctor’s Dilemma, page 166)
“I...
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