July 2011
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“[A] few doors down from the butcher’s shop where Dad worked there was a little...”
– Alan Bennett (via daringescapes)
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“Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in...”
– -F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
For me, at times, looking at quotes can be akin to jumping down a rabbit hole. One author’s sentiment will remind me of another’s and then I’m off looking at the nuances of each, wondering who is better in their description of a moment or feeling.
This...
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“One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant...”
– http://testyourvocab.com/ (via cienmilzompopos)
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shereadsthings: Brideshead Revisited →
shereadsthings:
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Who, by the way, was not a lady, but a man.
Seriously, though.
I finished reading Brideshead about two days ago. Overall, I’d give it about a 3.8-3.9 out of five stars. In a lot of ways, it reminded me quite a bit of Atonement by Ian McEwan - another of…
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“The notion of homosexuality as being accepted is really key to that period, in a...”
– Philip Hoare, author of Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant. (via thebrightyoungpeople)
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By Alias Clio
I am very fond of Evelyn Waugh’s memoir, A Little Learning. I like its careful, measured tones, and its detachment. Two of my favourite passages in it, though, were not written by Waugh himself, but come from letters he received from his friend and mentor Francis Crease, an eccentric recluse who tutored him in calligraphy. The first passage that struck me is about the love of beauty in life...
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“I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that...”
– Evelyn Waugh (via contemporaryamericanpoultry)
After his divorce with She-Evelyn
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evelyn waugh’s last blog entry
via ragbag
dated easter 1965 (aged 62)
On Maundy Thursday appeared a notice in the paper under the heading ‘Death of former unionist MP’. I did not recognize this as Phil Dunne until Christopher Sykes told me on Saturday. He was my age. I last saw him just before Christmas, elegant, gay, and I thought how little he had aged compared with myself. He was completely selfish without an element...
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evelyn waugh’s first blog entry
via ragbag
dated september 1911; aged 7
My name is Evelyn Waugh I go to Heath Mount school I am in the Vth Form, Our Form Master is Mr Stebbing.
We all hate Mr Cooper, our arith master. It is the 7th day of the Winter Term which is my 4th. Today is Sunday so I am not at school. We allways have sausages for breakfast on Sundays I have been watching Lucy fry them they do look funny befor...
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