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Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.
Evelyn Waugh
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Evelyn Waugh
Age: 62 †
Born: 1903
Born: October 28
Died: 1966
Died: April 10
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Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh
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I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
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But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.
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Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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His heart some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.
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News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.
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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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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.
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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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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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Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.
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My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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The Welsh are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They just sing. Sing and blow down wind instruments of plated silver.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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