Grab A Pen And Put Down Some

Shaw Does Not Merely Decorate A Proposition, But Makes His Way From Point To Point Through New And Difficult Territory. This Explains Why Shaw Must Either Be Taken Whole Or Left Alone. He Must Be Disassembled And Put Together Again With Nothing Left Out, Under Pain Of Incomprehension; For His Politics, His Art, And His Religion - To Say Nothing Of The Shape Of His Sentences - Are Unique Expressions Of This Enormously Enlarged And Yet Concentrated Consciousness.

Above All, The Ability To Feel The Force Of An Argument Apart From The Substance It Deals With Is The Strongest Weapon Against Prejudice.

The World Has Long Observed That Small Acts Of Immorality, If Repeated, Will Destroy Character. It Is Equally Manifest, Though Never Said, That Uttering Nonsense And Half-truth Without Cease Ends By Destroying Intellect

I Once Worked As A Salesman And Was Very Independent. I Took Orders From No One.

Seeing Clearly Within Himself And Always Able To Dodge Around The Ends Of Any Position, Including His Own, Shaw Assumed From The Start The Dual Role Of Prophet And Gadfly. To His Contemporaries It Appeared Frivolous And Contradictory To Perform As Both Superman And Socialist, Sceptic And Believer, Legalist And Heretic, High-brow And Mob-orator. But Feeling The Duty To Teach As Well As To Mirror Mankind, Shaw Did Not Accept Himself As A Contradictory Being.