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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.

Evelyn Waugh

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
I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
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
I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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Believe Existence Fall Love Marriage Myself People
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Couple Love Person Relationship Trust Yourself
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
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
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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Acceptance Civilization Possible Time
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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Gift Himself Intuition Rich Wisdom

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