Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
EVELYN WAUGHHere I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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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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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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