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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Evelyn Waugh

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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Art Beautiful Discipline Experience Thinking Work
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
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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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Change Happiness Hope Life Myself People
I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Common Experience Live Misery Myself Possible
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
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
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
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
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
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
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
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

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

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