Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.
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There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
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If the first half was a quest for success, the second half is a journey to significance.
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Sleep away the years, sleep away the pain, wake tomorrow - a girl again.
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Every day is like that, eight successive meetings on eight different topics, every one really important and interesting.
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The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.
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Everywhere is here and every when is now.
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When you ten, you know more about your team than you ever will know again.
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There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are amusing to you but no one else is going to enjoy them nearly as much and you worry you're going to have to take them out in the end.
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A southern moon is a sodden moon, and sultry. When it swamps the fields and the rustling sandy roads and the sticky honeysuckle hedges in its sweet stagnation, your fight to hold on to reality is like a protestation against a first waft of ether.
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When I was born ... the doctor came out to the waiting room and said to my father ... I'm very sorry. We did everything we could ... but he pulled through.
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If the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.
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How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?
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I like a lot of Tom Cruise's roles, he's this action hero.
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When you are serving volunteer professional military, you take an oath to the Constitution, not to a policy or a president and you swear to obey the lawful orders of the democratically elected government. And so at the end of the day you could table your personal political views and do your job.
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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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Gratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience.
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I used to think Shoji Hamada never drew, until there was a book by Bernard Leach published about his work Hamada: Potter, Tokyo; New York: Harper & Row, 1975 and at the rear of the book were a number of wonderful little sketches, but they were not drawings like Bernard made.
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I can't bare you when you're not amusing.
