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

Evelyn Waugh

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Children Destruction Family Father Myself See
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Death Forget Name Oneself Vocabulary Word
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Happiness Myself Sleep Togetherness
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
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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Future Generation Happiness Himself Live World
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
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
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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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Conversation Goodness Missing Yourself
Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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Hold Parents Possible Son 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
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Active Age Comfortable Company Philosophy Young
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill

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

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