The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit touch it and the bloom is gone.Oscar Wilde
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. . . . The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
Oscar Wilde
MRS ALLONBY. They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris. LADY HUNSTANTON. Indeed And when bad Americans die, where do they go to; LORD ILLINGWORTH. Oh, they go to America.
Oscar Wilde
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
Oscar Wilde
A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
Oscar Wilde
That little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
Oscar Wilde
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