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Evelyn Waugh
“O God, make me good, but not yet.”
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh
“Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William?
Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it.
Waugh: I get mine spreading alarm and despondency and I get more satisfaction than you do.”
Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh
“Dearest Charles--
I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning for my lost innocence. It never looked like living. The doctors despaired of it from the start...
I am never quite alone. Members of my family keep turning up and collecting luggage and going away again, but the white raspberries are ripe.
I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.
Love or what you will.
S.”
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh
“When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.”
Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh
“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, Brideshead Revisited

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