George Bernard Shaw
“I deal with all periods; but I never study any period but the present, which I have not yet mastered and never shall; and as a dramatist I have no clue to any historical or other personage save that part of him which is also myself…The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”-Preface to The Sanity of Art (1907), George Bernard Shaw
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I think you mentioned he is your favorite author, maedez. The events around us may differ from decade to decade, century to century but our humanity, bad and good, is timeless.
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Yes, he is! Fashions change, but humanity stays the same.
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That is the youngest I have ever seen GBS!
I agree with him and with judyrobbinsart above: technology changes but human nature really doesn’t change.
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Oh, I have some pics of him where he is considerably younger!
I fully agree with the sentiment, too.
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