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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

Evelyn Waugh

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
EVELYN WAUGH

Happiness Myself Sleep Togetherness
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
EVELYN WAUGH

Gift Himself Intuition Rich Wisdom
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.
EVELYN WAUGH

Country Design Expectation Generosity Happiness Listening People Secret Talk
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
EVELYN WAUGH

Feeling Future Myself Past Present Room Side
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Forgiveness God Philosophy Religious Sin
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Alive Himself Strength Struggle War
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
EVELYN WAUGH

Care Media News Reading
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
EVELYN WAUGH

Couple Love Person Relationship Trust Yourself
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
EVELYN WAUGH

Children Destruction Family Father Myself See
Mr. 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.
EVELYN WAUGH

Future Generation Happiness Himself Live World
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People

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