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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

Evelyn Waugh

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
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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Dignity Forest Myself Power Ruin Thinking
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Kind Myself Thinking Time Wickedness
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
EVELYN WAUGH

Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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Ability Cherish Friendship Ourselves
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
EVELYN WAUGH

Believe Existence Fall Love Marriage Myself People

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