"I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience."

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Source : Evelyn Waugh, Mark Amory (1980). “The letters of Evelyn Waugh”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Evelyn Waugh

#Common Quotes #Miserable Quotes

“Not one piece of evidence has ever been found to support the Book of Mormon-not a trace of the large cities it names, no ruins, no coins, no letters or documents or monuments, nothing in writing. Not even one of the rivers or mountains or any of the topography it mentions has ever been identified.”
“A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.”
“There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."”

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“The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and a student of gravitational relativity on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. On Sunday, he is praying... that someone will find the reconciliation between the two views.”
“Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.”
“Wonder is very necessary in life. When we're little kids, we're filled with wonder for the world - it's fascinating and miraculous. A lot of people lose that. They become cynical and jaded, especially in modern day society. Magic renews that wonder.”
“A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.”
“There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.”

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