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| Evelyn Waugh
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. I put the words down and push them a bit. In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up. There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief. What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? |
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