I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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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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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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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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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