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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.

Evelyn Waugh

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Forgiveness God Philosophy Religious Sin
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
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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Easy Innocence Oneself Youth
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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Children Destruction Family Father Myself See
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
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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Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work
Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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Better Change Name Reason See Sound Start Stop Yourself
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst

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