If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, … - Evelyn Waugh

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A monarchy is like a man-of-war--bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft. You cannot easily overturn it. It is a wet place, but it is a pretty safe one.

Evelyn Waugh

If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.

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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.

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

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