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Evelyn Waugh Quote - Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

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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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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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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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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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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