ALS, 1895 February 1 : [London], to [William] Heinemann.

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ALS, 1895 February 1 : [London], to [William] Heinemann.

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Shaw advises: "It is not enough for you to cut a slice of life--anyone can do that who can write or imagine at all--you must eat the slice, digest it, & build it up into a living organism. That's the meaning of 'creation' in art." He also says: "Outside the most lighthearted comedy, there must be no happy endings; but there must be great endings, or hopeful, or right endings; but happiness & unhappiness are the positive & negative ends of life only with fools."

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