Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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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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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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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 think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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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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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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