I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
EVELYN WAUGHFor in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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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.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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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.
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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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