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Quote by Evelyn Waugh
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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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One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. – 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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Prison
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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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I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesnt know where to die. – Antonio Gramsci

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The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. – Henry Miller

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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. – Thomas Hobbes

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Id rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star.Id rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far;for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are. – Milton Berle

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