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Evelyn Waugh Quote - It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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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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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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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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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