Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider … - Evelyn Waugh

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Playing somebody who's obsessed. Playing somebody who is transgressing, and who is really crossing moral lines and ethical lines. That's always interesting.

Evelyn Waugh

Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.

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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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