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Evelyn Waugh has 157 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
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She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.
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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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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene…
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One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
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If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
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I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one…
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I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
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Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be…
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of…
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I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different…
— Barbara Hepworth
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Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin,…
— Elena Ferrante
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
— Evelyn Waugh
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The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn…
— Anne Lamott
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We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.
— Sigmund Freud
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I gallop and jump and ride young horses with intense pleasure.
— Jane Smiley
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense…
— Jeremy Denk
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