Quote by Evelyn Waugh
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horro

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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. – 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 does what one is; one becomes what one does. – Robert von Musil, Kleine Prosa

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The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. – Zen Saying

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The road was new to me, as roads always are going back. – Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country Road of Pointed Firs, 1896

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I have women coming up to me and saying: I love your character! Shes so empowered. She takes control she gets what she wants. Thats another side of her. And I respect that in Joan. She says and does things that I would never allow myself to do. – Christina Hendricks

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