I put the words down and push them a bit.
EVELYN WAUGHAnyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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 a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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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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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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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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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