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Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh angol író.

Leginkább az olyan szatirikus és fekete humorú regényeiről ismert, mint a Jámbor pálya, a Vile Bodies, a Scoop, az Egy marék por vagy A megboldogult. Waugh sok regénye a brit arisztokráciáról és felső osztályról szól, amit annak ellenére kifigurázott, hogy szoros kötödése volt hozzá neki is. Ezen felül írt még novellákat, útikönyveket és életrajzokat is. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. október 1903 – 10. április 1966   •   Más nevek Evelyn Arthur John Waugh
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Evelyn Waugh: Idézetek angolul

“[Change is] the only evidence of life.”

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Forrás: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”

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Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)

“He had no wish to obliterate anything he had written, but he would dearly have liked to revise it, envying painters, who are allowed to return to the same theme time and time again, clarifying and enriching until they have done all they can with it. A novelist is condemned to provide a succession of novelties, new names for characters, new incidents for his plots, new scenery; but, Mr Pinfold maintained, most men harbour the germs of one or two books only; all else is professional trickery of which the most daemonic of the masters — Dickens and Balzac even — were flagrantly guilty.”

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Evelyn Waugh könyv The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

Forrás: The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957), Chapter 1

“One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.”

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Diary entry (5 October 1962)

“Mrs. Ape's famous hymn, There ain't no flies on the Lamb of God.”

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Evelyn Waugh könyv Vile Bodies

Forrás: Vile Bodies (1930), Chapter 1

“But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiousity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.”

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Evelyn Waugh könyv Brideshead Revisited

Part 1, Chapter 1
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“Was anyone hurt?”

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Evelyn Waugh könyv A Handful of Dust

"No one I am thankful to say," said Mrs. Beaver, "except two housemaids who lost their heads and jumped through a glass roof into the paved court."
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A Handful of Dust (1934)

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”

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Forrás: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

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

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

“After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.”

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Evelyn Waugh könyv Vile Bodies

Forrás: Vile Bodies

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

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Evelyn Waugh könyv The Loved One

Forrás: The Loved One (1948), Chapter 9
Kontextus: In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.

“I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”

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Forrás: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper…”

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Forrás: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“O God, make me good, but not yet”

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Part 1, start of chapter 5
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Forrás: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“To understand all is to forgive all.”

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Forrás: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“No one is ever holy without suffering.”

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Forrás: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?”

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Forrás: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“… for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.”

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Forrás: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.”

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Forrás: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.”

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Part 1, Chapter 1
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Forrás: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them -- a diminishing number in my case.”

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Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976) p. 786

“That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.”

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Forrás: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.”

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Forrás: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.”

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Evelyn Waugh könyv Vile Bodies

Forrás: Vile Bodies (1930)

“I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.”

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“No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.”

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Forrás: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder

“I can't bare you when you're not amusing.”

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Evelyn Waugh könyv Vile Bodies

Forrás: Vile Bodies

“His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.”

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Forrás: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder