News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
EVELYN WAUGHMoney 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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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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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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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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