Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
EVELYN WAUGHI regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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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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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 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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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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