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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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
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I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.
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If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.
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My approach to politics is that I'm not a Democrat or a Republican. I'm an American and I always support candidates I think are great for the country.
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I think women should have what they determine to be a staple in their closet, because who's to say that my staple is someone else's staple? I'm this tall, and I live in this city, and I have to walk the kids to school, and I don't tend to drive as much - my life requirements are radically different than yours or hers or his. Staples are: What do you need? And then, what do you want? "Need" comes first, typically; "want" gets taken care of occasionally.
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I can't bare you when you're not amusing.
