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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.

Evelyn Waugh

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.
EVELYN WAUGH

Bury Happiness Misery Myself Old Place Precious Remember Ugly
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.
EVELYN WAUGH

Advice Fingers Language Yourself
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.
EVELYN WAUGH

Character Food Soft Warm
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
EVELYN WAUGH

Children Destruction Family Father Myself See
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
EVELYN WAUGH

Argument Limitation Ourselves
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
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 WAUGH

Feeling Future Myself Past Present Room Side
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
EVELYN WAUGH

Gift Himself Intuition Rich Wisdom
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
EVELYN WAUGH

Blind Myself Road
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
EVELYN WAUGH

Ability Cherish Friendship Ourselves
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
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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Art Beautiful Discipline Experience Thinking Work
It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
EVELYN WAUGH

Civilization Curiosity Paradise Promise Taste

I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.

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