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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.
Evelyn Waugh
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Evelyn Waugh
Age: 62 †
Born: 1903
Born: October 28
Died: 1966
Died: April 10
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Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh
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Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.
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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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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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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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid' the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it.
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I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
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I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me.
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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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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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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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Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.
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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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