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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Evelyn Waugh

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
EVELYN WAUGH

Character Let Go Mischief Need Yourself
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Children Destruction Family Father Myself See
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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Character Food Soft Warm
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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Art Charm Death Existence Fear Greatness Kill Love Myself Touch Yourself
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Age Artist Flop Reaction Stand
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Forgiveness God Philosophy Religious Sin
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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Gift Himself Intuition Rich Wisdom
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
EVELYN WAUGH

Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself

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