'Nothing makes one so vain as being told he is a sinner...'

'...Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth.'

Oscar Wilde - What a Bloody Genius!

This time I'm not using Genius in the sense I always do, as in just really really cool, Wilde is genuinely, pure, unadulterated genius!

I've bee sat here singing along to Reel Big Fish/Robots in Disguise now for about 10 minutes, 'cause I can't actually think of a way to write down what we really want to say, I just know I want to say something :P.

1) Quotations:- some of them are truthful, some are hilarious, some are both, such as this one:- “America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.” Personally I agree ;)

The title of this blog, for example, is so truthful, people will say anything when they won't be named and can stay anonymous, it's natural, we get embarrassed, we're much more comfortable telling people the truth if we have a little mask to hide behind, where we're not open to the public to be criticised for our actions, he was a person who summed up human actions, human life into little 'one-liners' like that.

2) Books:- He wrote pure classics, much better than anyone nowadays could do. Better than what other people then could do. He was also MUCH better than Shakespeare at writing in any form. He viewed writing as an art "Art is a symbol, because man is a symbol" He viewed Life as art I think. (Just found this quote, I thought it fit with me as I can never take Anything seriously! 'Life is far too important a thing to talk seriously about')

All round, he was just such an amazing writer and I actually adore his works.


'Nothing Can Stop Us, This Script Is A Work Of Genius' - Amanda Palmer

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Ps I realise most of this post doesn't actually make much sense, and I apologise if you find it's kind of unreadable. ('But what is the difference between Journalism and Literature? Journalism is unreadable, Literature is not read. That is all.' - Oscar Wilde)