Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I can't bare you when you're not amusing.
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Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.
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Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be
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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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We are American at puberty. We die French.
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... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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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.