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Evelyn Waugh Quote - Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

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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
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Couple Love Person Relationship Trust Yourself
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
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Kind Myself Thinking Time Wickedness
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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Dignity Forest Myself Power Ruin Thinking
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
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

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