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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.

Evelyn Waugh

To understand all is to forgive all.
EVELYN WAUGH

Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Kind Myself Thinking Time Wickedness
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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
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
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
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 prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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Feeling Future Myself Past Present Room Side
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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Ability Cherish Friendship Ourselves
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
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
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

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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