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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.

Evelyn Waugh

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
EVELYN WAUGH

Age Artist Flop Reaction Stand
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
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
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.
EVELYN WAUGH

Country Design Expectation Generosity Happiness Listening People Secret Talk
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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Character Food Soft Warm
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
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
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
EVELYN WAUGH

Lost Money Philosophy Player

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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