Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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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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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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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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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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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