Orts #675

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.     

     -- the opening line of Evelyn Waugh's A Little Learning

The body, which includes the mind and nerves, is a link in a heterogeneous concatenation; the soul is a separate creation.

      -- Waugh, A Little Learning

I was born in the late autumn of 1903. I have no more memory of the house where this occurred than of the event itself.

     -- ibid.

In the vacancies of the adolescent mind mutually contradictory principles make easy neighbours.

     -- ibid.