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025a911	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.	faith god love	Evelyn Waugh
10ae01f	I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.		Evelyn Waugh
68fdf20	Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William?		Evelyn Waugh
2c22338	The vision fades, the soul sickens, and the routine of survival starts again.		Evelyn Waugh
a39c85a	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."		Evelyn Waugh
e242a5d	My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me. Like the pigeons of St. Mark's, theywere everywhere, under my feet, singly, in pairs, in little honey-voiced congregations, nodding, strutting, winking, rolling the tender feathers of their necks, perching sometimes, if I stood still, on my shoulder ..		Evelyn Waugh
ce1a3e6	Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.		Evelyn Waugh
3c9d16d	Life is like the big wheel at Luna Park. You pay five francs and go into a room with tiers of seats all around, and in the centre the floor is made of a great disc of polished wood that revolves quickly. At first you sit down and watch the others. They are all trying to sit in the wheel, and they keep getting flung off, and that makes them laugh too. It's great fun. You see, the nearer you can get to the hub of the wheel the slower it is mo..		Evelyn Waugh
6ff2ac0	The fortnight at Venice passed quickly and sweetly-- perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, stingless.		Evelyn Waugh
834ec73	He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.		Evelyn Waugh
7d2468c	its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.		Evelyn Waugh
591e36b	Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.	nostalgia	Evelyn Waugh
c5ee90c	It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.		Evelyn Waugh
63f1bea	I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know no bounds... I was struck less by his looks than by the fact that he was carrying a large teddy-bear"."		Evelyn Waugh
8389699	Success in this world depends on knowing exactly how little effort each job is worth...distribution of energy...		Evelyn Waugh
4bbe382	Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul.	oxford	Evelyn Waugh
d3290ca	Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.	travel travel-writing	Evelyn Waugh
842fa16	The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are.	education intelligence	Evelyn Waugh
1c9ba4c	These memories are the memorials and pledges of the vital hours of a lifetime. These hours of afflatus in the human spirit, the springs of art, are, in their mystery, akin to the epochs of history, when a race which for centuries has lived content, unknown, behind its own frontiers, digging, eating, sleeping, begetting, doing what was requisite for survival and nothing else, will, for a generation or two, stupefy the world; commit all manne..		Evelyn Waugh
3e4813c	What an immature, self-destructive, antiquated mischief is man! How obscure and gross his prancing and chattering on his little stage of evolution! How loathsome and beyond words boring all the thoughts and self-approval of his biological by-product! this half-formed, ill-conditioned body! this erratic, maladjusted mechanism of his soul: on one side the harmonious instincts and balanced responses of the animal, on the other the inflexible p..		Evelyn Waugh
bfb94ab	I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the philistine's vulgarity and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.	fads fashion tradition timelessness	Evelyn Waugh
e691d9a	Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.		Evelyn Waugh
e747329	Downstairs Peter Beste-Chetwynde mixed himself another brandy and soda and turned a page in Havelock Ellis, which, next to , was his favourite book.		Evelyn Waugh
7bc44b3	As we made our halting, laborious way forward, away from the flying smuts of the smoke stack, we were alternately jostled together, then strained, nearly sundered, arms and fingers interlocked as I held the rail and Julia clung to me, thrust together again, drawn apart; then, in a plunge deeper than the rest, I found myself flung across her, pressing her against the rail, warding myself off her with the arms that held her prisoner on either..		Evelyn Waugh
7e037bb	Of children as of procreation-- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.		Evelyn Waugh
b5cb6c3	One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.		Evelyn Waugh
d07ffb4	I put the words down and push them a bit.		Evelyn Waugh
18f46b9	Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.		Evelyn Waugh
6bb0d20	Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.		Evelyn Waugh
5f42cb7	Please bear in mind throughout that IT IS MEANT TO BE FUNNY.		Evelyn Waugh
2ce4a4a	'But what am I to teach them?' said Paul in sudden panic.		Evelyn Waugh
f49dd0a	I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.		Evelyn Waugh
eb7019a	There will be a prize of half a crown for the longest essay, irrespective of any possible merit.		Evelyn Waugh
a9601a2	Chokey thinks religion is just divine.		Evelyn Waugh
8cc20d8	That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.		Evelyn Waugh
2f6f8cb	Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.		Evelyn Waugh
ccc64bd	Creative Endeavour lost her wings, Mrs. Ape.		Evelyn Waugh
b85ddad	Mrs. Ape's famous hymn, There ain't no flies on the Lamb of God.		Evelyn Waugh
b661d05	Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.		Evelyn Waugh
1203ab6	Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.		Evelyn Waugh
1e2a9a0	I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house..."		Evelyn Waugh
eb936cb	Up to a point, Lord Copper."		Evelyn Waugh
4232f8c	To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.		Evelyn Waugh
dd6f26e	It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."		Evelyn Waugh

025a911

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.

faith god love

Evelyn Waugh

10ae01f

I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.

Evelyn Waugh

68fdf20

Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William?

Evelyn Waugh

2c22338

The vision fades, the soul sickens, and the routine of survival starts again.

Evelyn Waugh

a39c85a

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."

Evelyn Waugh

e242a5d

My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me. Like the pigeons of St. Mark's, theywere everywhere, under my feet, singly, in pairs, in little honey-voiced congregations, nodding, strutting, winking, rolling the tender feathers of their necks, perching sometimes, if I stood still, on my shoulder ..

Evelyn Waugh

ce1a3e6

Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.

Evelyn Waugh

3c9d16d

Life is like the big wheel at Luna Park. You pay five francs and go into a room with tiers of seats all around, and in the centre the floor is made of a great disc of polished wood that revolves quickly. At first you sit down and watch the others. They are all trying to sit in the wheel, and they keep getting flung off, and that makes them laugh too. It's great fun. You see, the nearer you can get to the hub of the wheel the slower it is mo..

Evelyn Waugh

6ff2ac0

The fortnight at Venice passed quickly and sweetly-- perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, stingless.

Evelyn Waugh

834ec73

He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

Evelyn Waugh

7d2468c

its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.

Evelyn Waugh

591e36b

Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.

nostalgia

Evelyn Waugh

c5ee90c

It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.

Evelyn Waugh

63f1bea

I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know no bounds... I was struck less by his looks than by the fact that he was carrying a large teddy-bear"."

Evelyn Waugh

8389699

Success in this world depends on knowing exactly how little effort each job is worth...distribution of energy...

Evelyn Waugh

4bbe382

Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul.

oxford

Evelyn Waugh

d3290ca

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

travel travel-writing

Evelyn Waugh

842fa16

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are.

education intelligence

Evelyn Waugh

1c9ba4c

These memories are the memorials and pledges of the vital hours of a lifetime. These hours of afflatus in the human spirit, the springs of art, are, in their mystery, akin to the epochs of history, when a race which for centuries has lived content, unknown, behind its own frontiers, digging, eating, sleeping, begetting, doing what was requisite for survival and nothing else, will, for a generation or two, stupefy the world; commit all manne..

Evelyn Waugh

3e4813c

What an immature, self-destructive, antiquated mischief is man! How obscure and gross his prancing and chattering on his little stage of evolution! How loathsome and beyond words boring all the thoughts and self-approval of his biological by-product! this half-formed, ill-conditioned body! this erratic, maladjusted mechanism of his soul: on one side the harmonious instincts and balanced responses of the animal, on the other the inflexible p..

Evelyn Waugh

bfb94ab

I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the philistine's vulgarity and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.

fads fashion tradition timelessness

Evelyn Waugh

e691d9a

Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.

Evelyn Waugh

e747329

Downstairs Peter Beste-Chetwynde mixed himself another brandy and soda and turned a page in Havelock Ellis, which, next to , was his favourite book.

Evelyn Waugh

7bc44b3

As we made our halting, laborious way forward, away from the flying smuts of the smoke stack, we were alternately jostled together, then strained, nearly sundered, arms and fingers interlocked as I held the rail and Julia clung to me, thrust together again, drawn apart; then, in a plunge deeper than the rest, I found myself flung across her, pressing her against the rail, warding myself off her with the arms that held her prisoner on either..