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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.

Evelyn Waugh

We possess nothing certainly except the past.
EVELYN WAUGH

Exception One Liner Past Possession
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Couple Love Person Relationship Trust Yourself
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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Modern Remove Science
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Kind Myself Thinking Time Wickedness
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
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
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
EVELYN WAUGH

Exception See Woman Youth
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
EVELYN WAUGH

Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst
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
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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Appearance Enough Heaven Human Invention Mindset
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
EVELYN WAUGH

Education Ignorance Modern Trouble 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

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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