To understand all is to forgive all.
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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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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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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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