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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

Evelyn Waugh

He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
EVELYN WAUGH

Alive Himself Strength Struggle War
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Forgiveness God Philosophy Religious Sin
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Energy Mistake People Resident
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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Country Design Expectation Generosity Happiness Listening People Secret Talk
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
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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Appearance Enough Heaven Human Invention Mindset
Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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Dignity Forest Myself Power Ruin Thinking
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel
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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Easy Innocence Oneself Youth
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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Lost Money Philosophy Player

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 think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

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