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“I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.”

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British writer known for his satirical and humorous style, with notable works including 'Vile Bodies' and 'Brideshead Revisited'. Waugh is renowned for his profound insights into 20th-century British society and culture. more

“I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.”

Knows Littles Has Beens Facts Belief Interest Rounds Core Newspapers Delicate Layers Blank Pearls Lively Grit Ornaments Embryos

Book:Scoop: a novel

Source: Scoop: a novel

“I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.”

Writing Character Use Language Exercise Regard Obsessed Investigation Use Of Language

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.”

Thinking I Can Seems Excuse Idiotic

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.”

Accepting Civilization Benefits Bases Deny Brideshead Revisited

Book:A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes

Source: A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes

“I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.”

Two Home Principles Cameras Motion Pictures

Book:The loved one: an Anglo-American tragedy

Source: The loved one: an Anglo-American tragedy

“My father and I were never intimate in the sense of my coming to him with confidences or seeking advice. Our relationship was rather that of host and guest. Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.”

Father Advice Son Relation Seeking Intimate Host Guests Our Relationship Father And Son

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.”

Ends Forever Goes On Blow Welsh

Book:A Handful of Dust: Decline and Fall

Source: A Handful of Dust: Decline and Fall

“Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.”

“Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.”

Reason Names Sound No Reason

Book:The loved one: an Anglo-American tragedy

Source: The loved one: an Anglo-American tragedy

“One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.”

Men Three Produce Masters Pages Regard Originals Average Brilliant Simile

Author:Evelyn Waugh

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