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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

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
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Forgiveness God Philosophy Religious Sin
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Age Artist Flop Reaction Stand
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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Future Generation Happiness Himself Live World
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Exception See Woman Youth
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
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
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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Believe Existence Fall Love Marriage Myself People
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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Acceptance Civilization Possible Time
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
I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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Excuse Image Myself Stupidity Thinking Worship

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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