Max Beerbohm - Work Quotes

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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Max Beerbohm

Have you noticed…there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.

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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

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There is laughter that goes so far as to lose all touch with its motive, and to exist only, grossly, in itself. This is laughter at its best. A man to whom such laughter has often been granted may happen to die in a work-house. No matter. I will not admit that he has failed in life. Another man, who has never laughed thus, may be buried in Westminster Abbey, leaving more than a million pounds overhead. What then? I regard him as a failure.

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