Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. - Evelyn Waugh

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Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

Evelyn Waugh

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

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The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G. K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a 'twitch upon the thread' draws the fish to land.

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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

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We are American at puberty. We die French.

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For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

New York, Mistake, Air, Inhabitants, City

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

Amusing, Bare, I Can

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But like everything else, love changed.

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Lisel Mueller

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

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David Foster Wallace

Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get.

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Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

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