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Evelyn Waugh
Age: 62 †
Born: 1903
Born: October 28
Died: 1966
Died: April 10
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh
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I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
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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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Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
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Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
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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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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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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Free as air that's what they say- free as air. Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.
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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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Conversation should be like juggling up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher
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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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We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
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You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.
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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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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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