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"Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not."
"The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference."
"Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere - anywhere."
"You poor, patient man, you think you have time? The best thing you can do for yourself is to stop waiting for something and refuse to be patient! Waiting is nonsense! Patience is rubbish! Get rid of these cultural and religious baloneys, throw away these turtle strategies! No waiting! No patience! Do whatever you want to do now! You have only 'now' in your hand to do something! You poor, slow man; you poor turtle man! Speed up! To speed up is the greatest revolution man needs!"
"While the sun is shining on you, solve all your problems or else you shall be lost forever in the darkness!"
Explore more quotes by Evelyn Waugh
"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead."
"We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school."
"My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally."
"The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish."
"All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day."
"I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep."
"If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside."
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