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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

Evelyn Waugh

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Evelyn Waugh
Age: 62 †
Born: 1903
Born: October 28
Died: 1966
Died: April 10
Autobiographer
Diarist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh
Leather
Intense
Pleasure
Words
Shoemaker

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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By doing this he helps us to question and reassess our past, present and future situations, our assumptions and our options.
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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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be
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We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
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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 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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The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!
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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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She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying I must read that, too, when I've the time, replace it and continue the search.
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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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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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The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!
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His heart some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.
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If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.
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