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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.

Evelyn Waugh

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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Character Food Soft Warm
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
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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Easy Innocence Oneself Youth
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
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
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
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
I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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Excuse Image Myself Stupidity Thinking Worship
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Forgiveness God Philosophy Religious Sin

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