When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
EVELYN WAUGH
For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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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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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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