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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.

Evelyn Waugh

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
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
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
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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Live Myself Popular Reading Truth Wrong
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
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
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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Country Design Expectation Generosity Happiness Listening People Secret Talk
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
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
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
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Children Destruction Family Father Myself See
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

You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.

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