There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
EVELYN WAUGHA 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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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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.
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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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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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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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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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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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.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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