For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
EVELYN WAUGHThere is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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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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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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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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Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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