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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

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
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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Better Change Name Reason See Sound Start Stop Yourself
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
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Alive Himself Strength Struggle War
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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Hold Parents Possible Son Yourself
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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Future Generation Happiness Himself Live World
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
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
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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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Character Food Soft Warm
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
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

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

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