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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

Evelyn Waugh

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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Ability Cherish Friendship Ourselves
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Happiness Myself Sleep Togetherness
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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Character Food Soft Warm
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
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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Kind Myself Thinking Time Wickedness
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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Easy Innocence Oneself Youth
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
EVELYN WAUGH

Live Myself Popular Reading Truth Wrong
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Energy Mistake People Resident
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
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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Bury Happiness Misery Myself Old Place Precious Remember Ugly

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