"Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room."

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Evelyn Waugh

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“I handle my emotional pain with music and old movies, preferably Westerns.”
“Im plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise.”
“Affirm for yourself that you are a success. Affirm that you are successful in getting rid of your clutter. If you are having a hard time getting started, be grateful that you are such a successful clutterer. Who else could have amassed such a collection of stuff?”
“The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.”
“Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.68
“Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day.”
“My career is my girlfriend.”
“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.”

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