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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.

Evelyn Waugh

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Age Artist Flop Reaction Stand
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Exception See Woman Youth
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
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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Bury Happiness Misery Myself Old Place Precious Remember Ugly
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
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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Active Age Comfortable Company Philosophy Young
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
Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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Feeling Heart Broken Herself Local Simplicity
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
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
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
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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Conversation Goodness Missing Yourself
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Children Destruction Family Father Myself See

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.

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