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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.

Evelyn Waugh

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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Conversation Goodness Missing Yourself
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
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.
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Believe Existence Fall Love Marriage Myself People
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
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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Bury Happiness Misery Myself Old Place Precious Remember Ugly
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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Appearance Enough Heaven Human Invention Mindset
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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Advice Fingers Language Yourself
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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Hard Human Ideas Myself Power Religious
For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Energy Mistake People Resident

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