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Evelyn Waugh

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If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.


— Evelyn Waugh


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In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.


— Evelyn Waugh


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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.


— Evelyn Waugh


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John Waugh (English pronunciation: /ˈɑːθə ˈiːvlɪn ˈsɪndʒən wɔː/; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) known as Evelyn Waugh was an English writer of novels biographies and travel books. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer. In 1902 he became managing director of Chapman and Hall publiEvelyn Waughrs of the works of Charles Dickens.

Arthur Evelyn St. This blow together with a growing dislike for the welfare state culture of the postwar world and a decline in his health saddened his final years although he continued to write. Waugh is widely recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the 20th century.

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