Approximation Quote by Evelyn Waugh

“Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The necessary elements of style are lucidity, elegance, and individuality; these three qualities combine to form a preservative which ensures the nearest approximation to permanence in the fugitive art of letters.”

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

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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 conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.

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