When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
EVELYN WAUGHSometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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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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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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