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Evelyn Waugh

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Total quotes: 3

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Evelyn Waugh

Birthname

Birthday: October 28, 1903

Birthplace: United Kingdom

Death: April 10, 1966

Educated At: Hertford College

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: United Kingdom

Occupations: War Correspondent, Autobiographer, Science Fiction Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter

Spouse: Laura Herbert

Total quotes: 3

“If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.”

— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder : A Novel

Tagged: Identity

“While still a young man, John Courtney Boot had, as his publisher proclaimed, 'achieved an assured and enviable position in contemporary letters.”

— Evelyn Waugh, Scoop

Tagged: first lines of books

“When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.”

— Evelyn Waugh, No Title

Tagged: Limitations, Self-Direction, Self-Pity, Personal Growth, Motivational, Self-awareness, Self-Development

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