To understand all is to forgive all.
EVELYN WAUGHO God, make me good, but not yet.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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 put the words down and push them a bit.
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