I put the words down and push them a bit.
EVELYN WAUGHIf you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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 trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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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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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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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 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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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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