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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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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 know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.
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I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets I shall live long.
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Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding present, he thanked them for thanking him and there was no end to the exchange but death.
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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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For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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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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From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations.
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We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
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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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It is typical of Oxford, I said, to start the new year in autumn.
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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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I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.
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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love it kills art I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be
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It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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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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