My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
EVELYN WAUGHNews is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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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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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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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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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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Charm 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.
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