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

Evelyn Waugh

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
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Death Forget Name Oneself Vocabulary Word
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
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
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Character Let Go Mischief Need Yourself
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
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
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth

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

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