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1939–2001 England
Auberon Alexander Waugh (17 November 1939 – 16 January 2001) was an English journalist and author who was the son of Evelyn Waugh.
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There is no such thing as a normal human being. Nobody looks so eccentric as the man who is trying to look normal.
The price of privilege is eternal vigilance.
Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.
Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.
Murder does not rank as a scandal, in the way that financial impropriety or (to a lesser extent) sexual misbehaviour might. Murder is more of a misfortune, part of the American way of life. It is considered in bad taste to bring up the subject in conversation.
I am convinced that intelligent educated and literate men in Britain are neither left-wing or right-wing, but are bored by politics and regard all politicians with scorn. That is my political creed, so far as I have one.
Introduction and Guide' to Another Voice (1986)
Of the two crises facing us this Christmas — the caviare crisis and the Gulf crisis — I must admit finding the caviare crisis the more immediate. Many people — including children — are actually having to do without any caviare at all this Christmas.
It has long been a characteristic of 'progressives' in power that they are prepared to countenance almost any aberration on the progressive side but crack down like grand inquisitors on the slightest expression of conservative deviation.
Religion was inevitably going to contract into a small nucleus of enthusiasts, and all they've achieved is to change the enthusiasts; the new enthusiasts happen to be the ones who like clapping their hands and looking soppy. They repel me.
Pope Paul has always struck me as resembling Mr Heath in his extraordinary capacity for remaining rock-like and unbadgeable on every issue where common sense and prudence require him to bow before the prevailing wind, while bowing like a Japanese lavatory attendant before puffs of breeze which others would not even have noticed.
It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.
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I don't want 'constructive criticism'. I want praise.
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