Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
EVELYN WAUGHInstead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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