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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

Evelyn Waugh

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel
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
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
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
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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Acceptance Civilization Possible Time
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Active Age Comfortable Company Philosophy Young
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Children Destruction Family Father Myself See
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
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
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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Future Generation Happiness Himself Live World
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

For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

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