For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
EVELYN WAUGHIts 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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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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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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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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