Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
EVELYN WAUGHCharm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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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 don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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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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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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