The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. - Oscar Wilde

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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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About Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish dramatist, essayist, novelist and poet.

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Birth Name: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Alternative Names: Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde • Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde • Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde • Oscar O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde
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Originators like Oscar Wilde:
George Bernard Shaw Anton Chekhov William Somerset Maugham Mark Twain Friedrich Nietzsche

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I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.
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