Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
EVELYN WAUGHIf 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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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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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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