Evelyn Waugh
Related It seemed like forever. I tried to make sure she was breathing. I thought I had lost her a couple of... JAY GRIMES GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I thought what she had to say was inspiring. ERIN WALKER AYN RAND Pamela realizes for the first time in her life that she hadn't made the wrong choice at all. Nor had... PIP KARMEL CANDACE BUSHNELL KEN FOLLETT EDITH WHARTON NICHOLAS SPARKS KAMI GARCIA MICHAEL ONDAATJE Penelope (the parrot) squawked, ‘I’ll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!’... BETTY MACDONALD CASSANDRA CLARE CASSANDRA CLARE She did emerge from her misery eventually, regained all the weight she had lost, and became her norm... DR. JESSICA JAHIEL LEO TOLSTOY I stumbled across some information on her during the spring of 1977. What struck me about her was th... WILDA SMITH CASSANDRA CLARE FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT LISA KLEYPAS SARA SHERIDAN She told me that she had found an old house that she really loved. She would say 'I want you to come... LUTHER HILL DONALD MILLER CASSANDRA CLARE DAVE EGGERS She had a great opening act, which was [that] she had the stomach to do it and the will to do it and... CHRIS HEALY MICHAEL GRANT HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN KATE CHOPIN DAVID BERGEN I think everyone was in agreement the John Bolduc had absolutely pitch perfect intonation and just b... JACK KNOX MARCIA GAY HARDEN GASTON LEROUX A ray of light made a rainbow through the mist. [His] words had given her a small glimmer of hope �... RACHEL SKATVOLD Tears streamed down her wrinkled face. This world that she had longed to change for the better was a... GARY INBINDER F. SCOTT FITZGERALD DONNA WOOLFOLK CROSS JOHN GREEN JACK KEVORKIAN IAIN PEARS JODI PICOULT ROBERTO BENIGNI ANTHONY POWELL (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for... GARY NUMAN GUSTAVE FLAUBERT JOHN GREEN My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, ... STANLEY HAUERWAS All the barriers were gone. I had unwound the string she had given me, and found my way out of the l... DANIEL KEYES CRAIG FERGUSON KURT VONNEGUT JR. Then I looked right at Mama, for the first time in what seemed like forever, and she wasn't looking ... KATHERINE HANNIGAN C. JOYBELL C. MELINA MARCHETTA It seemed like forever ago, like wed had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities ar... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 JOHN GREEN THOMAS HARDY MURIEL SPARK She had followed me out to Hollywood from St. Paul. I was living in a boarding house, and she had a ... PETER GRAVES This was all her own idea. She woke up Saturday morning and she had had lemonade stands before. ... ... CHRISTINE KING WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She accepts that the story, which she sold to the newspaper, was an entire fabrication on her part a... 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CLINT WALLMAN At some point, she didn't know when or for how long, she found herself lost, lost in a song. Her eye... JAMES MORRIS SARAH WATERS My research helped me understand she was a human being with all the problems and foibles the rest of... GRIF STOCKLEY ALICE HOFFMAN P.G. WODEHOUSE P. G. WODEHOUSE JUSTIN CHON KAGE BAKER AMY TAN PATRICK ROTHFUSS MATTHEW LEWIS I thought Trina ran well. You could tell she was giving it her all. I thought she had the best indiv... DEREK HOOD I thought Trina ran well, ... You could tell she was giving it her all. I thought she had the best i... DEREK HOOD METTE IVIE HARRISON She had been beaten unconscious. She was covered in blood. She had this cord wrapped around her neck... GRAHAM THORPE ELIZABETH GASKELL I just feel so blessed to have had the time that I had with my mother. She made it so impactful in t... KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE Mike had a wife and her name was Terri. She came before me, and I knew that. That was just that. Not... 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'No one has said anything to me about a war. I really t... EVELYN ARTHUR ST. JOHN WAUGH A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is... ALEC WAUGH Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invent... AUBERON WAUGH Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exi... AUBERON WAUGH It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to... AUBERON WAUGH Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invent... AUBERON WAUGH Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore. AUBERON WAUGH We journalists like to think we are the new crusaders-it's much more gratifying than the image of th... AUBERON WAUGH Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the ... 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Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness whic... 
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I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thoug... 
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...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all... 
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I was lost before I found her in my dreams, and she found me that day in the rain. I knew it seemed ... 
She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, ... 
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You had every right to be. He raised his eyes to look at her and she was suddenly and strangely remi... 
Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did... 
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The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left. 
So what if she wasn’t a pushover? So what if she had some mettle and didn’t wear her heart on he... 
The thing I loved about her was that I never felt like she was selling anything. She would talk to G... 
it seemed, had some purpose, even if that purpose was just to ask for something. 
Astrid had gone to look at the burn zone. Doing the right thing.
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The fundamental mistake I had always made - and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make - w... 
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I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian] 
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