I put the words down and push them a bit.
EVELYN WAUGH
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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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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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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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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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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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