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

Evelyn Waugh

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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Conversation Goodness Missing Yourself
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Age Artist Flop Reaction Stand
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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Lost Money Philosophy Player
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
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
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Active Age Comfortable Company Philosophy Young
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself 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
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Death Forget Name Oneself Vocabulary Word
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
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner

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

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