I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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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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