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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.

Evelyn Waugh

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
EVELYN WAUGH

Children Destruction Family Father Myself See
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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Hold Parents Possible Son Yourself
Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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Change Happiness Hope Life Myself People
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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Education Lose Yourself
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
It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Civilization Curiosity Paradise Promise Taste
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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Art Beautiful Discipline Experience Thinking Work
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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Lost Money Philosophy Player
If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
EVELYN WAUGH

Answer Desire Desperate Emotion Hate Identity Love Name Philosophy Yourself

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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