I put the words down and push them a bit.
EVELYN WAUGHHe had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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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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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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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.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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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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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Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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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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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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