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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

Evelyn Waugh

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

Division People Sex Weird
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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Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
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
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Character Let Go Mischief Need Yourself
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
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
EVELYN WAUGH

Change Happiness Hope Life Myself People
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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Country Design Expectation Generosity Happiness Listening People Secret Talk
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 prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

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