Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
EVELYN WAUGHDon’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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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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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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