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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I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.
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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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Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
