I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
EVELYN WAUGHWords have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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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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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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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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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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