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

Evelyn Waugh

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
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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Gift Himself Intuition Rich Wisdom
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
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
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
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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Modern Remove Science
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
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
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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Appearance Enough Heaven Human Invention Mindset
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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Education Lose Yourself
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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Acceptance Civilization Possible Time
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel
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
It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Civilization Curiosity Paradise Promise Taste
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
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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Live Myself Popular Reading Truth Wrong
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
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
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
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
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves

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

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