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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.
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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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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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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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You don't remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.
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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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I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.
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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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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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Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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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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An artist must be a reactionary
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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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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The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles.
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