“It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”

— Evelyn Waugh

Part 2, Chapter 3
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

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British writer 1903–1966

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