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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

Evelyn Waugh

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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Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
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
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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Bury Happiness Misery Myself Old Place Precious Remember Ugly
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Death Forget Name Oneself Vocabulary Word
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Couple Love Person Relationship Trust Yourself
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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Change Happiness Hope Life Myself People
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
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
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
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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Hard Human Ideas Myself Power Religious
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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Conversation Goodness Missing Yourself
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
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
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
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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Appearance Enough Heaven Human Invention Mindset
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
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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Better Change Name Reason See Sound Start Stop Yourself
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
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Active Age Comfortable Company Philosophy Young
I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Common Experience Live Misery Myself Possible
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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Art Charm Death Existence Fear Greatness Kill Love Myself Touch Yourself
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

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