Beware of writing to me. I always answer. . . My father spent the last 20 years of … - Evelyn Waugh

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The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.

Evelyn Waugh

Beware of writing to me. I always answer. . . My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding present, he thanked them for thanking him and there was no end to the exchange but death.

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The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G. K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a 'twitch upon the thread' draws the fish to land.

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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

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We are American at puberty. We die French.

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For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

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I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

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