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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
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Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable
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One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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The better sort of Ishmaelites have been Christian for many centuries and will not publicly eat human flesh uncooked in Lent, without special and costly dispensation from their bishop.
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I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
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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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Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?
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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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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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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If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world.
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You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
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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 think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.
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Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.
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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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