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It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

— Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited (1945)

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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

Put Out More Flags (1942)

To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

Brideshead Revisited (1945)

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

Brideshead Revisited (1945)

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

Officers and Gentlemen (1955)

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

A Little Learning (1964)

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