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> [It is the thing that is most remote from the world in which we ourselves live that attracts us most. We are under the spell of what is distant from us. It is not our nature to desire passionately what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-waugh/it-is-the-thing-that-is-most-remote-from-the-world-in-which-we/)

[Alec Waugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-waugh/)

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## More by Alec Waugh

> [To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-waugh/to-be-excited-and-at-the-same-time-satisfied-to-desire-and-possess/)

[Alec Waugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-waugh/)

> [London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-waugh/london-is-a-city-of-clubs-and-private-houses-you-have-to-be-a-member/)

[Alec Waugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-waugh/)

> [By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-waugh/by-comparing-what-we-know-today-with-what-the-ancients-appear-to-have/)

[Alec Waugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-waugh/)

> [There is so little time for the discovery of all that we want to know about things that really interest us.We cannot afford to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-waugh/there-is-so-little-time-for-the-discovery-of-all-that-we-want-to-know/)

[Alec Waugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-waugh/)

> [There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-waugh/there-is-a-case-and-a-strong-case-for-that-particular-form-of/)

[Alec Waugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-waugh/)

> [A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-waugh/a-man-desires-praise-that-he-may-be-reassured-that-he-may-be-quit-of/)

[Alec Waugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-waugh/)

> [The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-waugh/the-man-who-asks-a-woman-what-she-wants-deserves-all-that-s-coming-to/)

[Alec Waugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-waugh/)

> [I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-waugh/i-am-prepared-to-believe-that-a-dry-martini-slightly-impairs-the/)

[Alec Waugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-waugh/)

> [It is the thing that is most remote from the world in which we ourselves live that attracts us most. We are under the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-waugh/it-is-the-thing-that-is-most-remote-from-the-world-in-which-we/)

[Alec Waugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-waugh/)

> [We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-waugh/we-need-not-be-intimidated-by-the-wine-snob-because-we-know-that-in/)

[Alec Waugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-waugh/)

> [You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-waugh/you-can-fall-in-love-at-first-sight-with-a-place-as-with-a-person/)

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