. . . she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had … - Evelyn Waugh

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You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.

Evelyn Waugh

. . . she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

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

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