Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.
Evelyn WaughStichwörter: faith
But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into the depths of confusion you didn't know existed.
Evelyn WaughJulia used to say, 'Poor Sebastian. It's something chemical in him.' That was the cant phrase of the time, derived from heaven knows what misconception of popular science. 'There's something chemical between them' was used to explain the overmastering hate or love of any two people. It was the old concept of determinism in a new form. I do not believe there was anything chemical in my friend.
Evelyn WaughIt is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.
Evelyn WaughStichwörter: youth
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
Evelyn WaughStichwörter: communication conversation depth
...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
Evelyn WaughStichwörter: neurosis new-york-city
If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...
Evelyn WaughStichwörter: happy summer teddy-bear sebastian
My dear, I should like to stick you full of barbed arrows like a p-p-pin cushion...Where do you lurk? I shall come down your burrow and ch-chivvy you out like an old st-t-toat.
Evelyn WaughOnce you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
Evelyn WaughInstead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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