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.
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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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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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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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