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# Re: Evelyn Waugh
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/54038/
- Published: 2021-02-28T18:38:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-24T01:30:14.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: #wpChunk, Humor, Quotes, Briefly

When someone called his attention to a typographical error in one of his books, he replied that one cannot get any decent proofreading now “that they no longer defrock priests for sodomy.”\*\*\*\*\*\*\*

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While serving in the British army in Yugoslavia during World War II, he spread the rumor that Marshal Tito was a woman–and a lesbian into the bargain.

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Of the reception in America of his novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), he wrote: “My book has been a great success in the United States which is upsetting because I thought it in good taste before and now I know it can't be.”

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In Yugoslavia, for a notable example, Waugh put it about that Birkenhead was having a homosexual affair with an Istrian intellectual and had also become a drug addict through the use of morphia. And, one must understand, he rather liked Birkenhead. Such free-floating malice evidently helped him get through the day.

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After witnessing his rudeness to a French intellectual to whom she introduced him, Nancy Mitford asked him if it weren't a contradiction that he was so rude a man and yet he claimed to be a practicing Catholic. “You have no idea,” he replied, “how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.” He might have added, as he wrote in his essay on his conversion, that “\[t\]he Protestant attitude seems often to be, 'I am good; therefore I go to church'; while the Catholic's is, 'I am very far from good; therefore I go to church.'"

[*Gallimaufry: A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits*](A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits)

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