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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be
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 read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean starting a life with you, without Him. Julia to Charles
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Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.
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Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure it is of the essence of a work of art. The necessary elements of style are lucidity, elegance, and individuality these three qualities combine to form a preservative which ensures the nearest approximation to permanence in the fugitive art of letters.
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The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!
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Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.
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Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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His heart some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.
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He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending to be whole.
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It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.
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He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]
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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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I never can understand how two men can write a book together to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.
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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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