He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
EVELYN WAUGHMr. 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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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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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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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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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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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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