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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

Evelyn Waugh

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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Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
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
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Exception See Woman Youth
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
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
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
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
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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Age Artist Flop Reaction Stand
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
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’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work
Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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Dignity Forest Myself Power Ruin Thinking

For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

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