Evelyn Waugh Quotes on Literature
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In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
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It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.
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In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
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Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
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There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
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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.