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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...
Evelyn Waugh
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Evelyn Waugh
Age: 62 †
Born: 1903
Born: October 28
Died: 1966
Died: April 10
Autobiographer
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh
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If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.
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An artist must be a reactionary
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Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.
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The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.
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There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters.
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You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.
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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.
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It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.
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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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The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles.
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The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable
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For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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