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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.

Evelyn Waugh

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
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
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
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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Civilization Curiosity Paradise Promise Taste
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
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
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Children Destruction Family Father Myself See
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
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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Advice Fingers Language Yourself
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
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
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel
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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Education Lose Yourself
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill

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