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that is not the last word it is not even an apt word it is a dead word from ten years back.

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Evelyn Waugh
Age: 62 †
Born: 1903
Born: October 28
Died: 1966
Died: April 10
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Science Fiction Writer
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Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh
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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love it kills art I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be
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The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!
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You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
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Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.
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Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision no harps no communal order but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.
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Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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You don't remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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An artist must be a reactionary
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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