Arts and Literature
- 2 November - George Bernard Shaw, playwright and critic, dies aged 94.
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Famous quotes containing the words arts and, arts and/or literature:
“I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.”
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“all the arts lose virtue
Against the essential reality
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Earnest elements of nature.”
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