“A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.”

— George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw, quoted by Hesketh Pearson, George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality, 1942
1940s and later

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Irish playwright 1856–1950

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