Quote by Evelyn Waugh
It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which w

It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. – 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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We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. – Lionel Trilling

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now… only much, much better. – Laurie Halse Anderson

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other. – Jean Baudrillard

A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. – Ernest Hemingway

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