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“News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.”

Evelyn Waugh

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One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

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“Sometimes," Helena continued, "I have a terrible dream of the future. Not now, but presently, people may forget their loyalty to their kings and…

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“Rex has never been unkind to me intentionally. It's just that he isn't a real person at all; he's just a few faculties of…

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If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...

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“My dear, I should like to stick you full of barbed arrows like a p-p-pin cushion...Where do you lurk? I shall come down your…

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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

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“Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents." --Cousin Jasper”

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

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“It’s awful to think that I shall probably never, as long as I live, see you dancing like that again all by yourself.”

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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…

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