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Quote by Evelyn Waugh
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel c

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. – Evelyn Waugh

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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. – Evelyn Waugh

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If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe… – Evelyn Waugh

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A fly and a flea in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the Flea, Let us fly!
Said the Fly, Let us flee!
So they fled through a flaw in the flue. – Anon.

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Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage. – Richard Lovelace

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I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesnt know where to die. – Antonio Gramsci

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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. – Cyril Connolly

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