For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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 put the words down and push them a bit.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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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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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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