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Evelyn Waugh

They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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Country Design Expectation Generosity Happiness Listening People Secret Talk
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
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
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
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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Ability Cherish Friendship Ourselves
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
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
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Happiness Myself Sleep Togetherness
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
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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Hold Parents Possible Son 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
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Alive Himself Strength Struggle War

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