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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
Writer
Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh
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I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed.
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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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I'm quite deaf now such a comfort.
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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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That was the change in her from ten years ago that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence it was the completion of her beauty.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]
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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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An artist must be a reactionary
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My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
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When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning.
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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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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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