Evelyn Waugh, 18 July 1961. A few of the thoughts that Waugh had jotted down over the years, and transcribed in Combe Florey, Somerset (The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, ed Michael Davie, 1976):
We are all American at puberty; we die French.
Doppelgängers don't recognise one another.
Politicians thrive by concealing the price-tags.
Where are you dying tonight?
A paragraph from "Decline and Fall" (yes, we are amused):
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