| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 53759 |
| QUOTATION: | You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?” |
| ATTRIBUTION: | George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. (1921). The Serpent, in Back to Methuselah, act 1,”In the Beginning,” The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 5, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1972). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Shaw Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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