Evelyn Waugh - The Loved One (1948)

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You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs—except in England, of course.

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Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

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All day the heat had been barely supportable but at evening a breeze arose in the West, blowing from the heart of the setting sun and from the ocean, which lay unseen, unheard behind the scrubby foothills. It shook the rusty fringes of palm-leaf and swelled the dry sounds of summer, the frog-voices, the grating cicadas, and the ever present pulse of music from the neighbouring native huts.

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I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

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Her eyes greenish and remote, with a rich glint of lunacy.... "What did your Loved One pass on from?" she asked.

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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.

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Tomorrow and on every anniversary as long as the Happier Hunting Ground existed a postcard would go to Mr. Joyboy: Your little Aimée is wagging her tail in heaven tonight, thinking of you.

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That impersonal insensitive friendliness which takes the place of ceremony in that land of waifs and strays.

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