09 September 2014

Waugh on Being a Catholic

"You have no idea how much nastier I’d be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.” 

 - Evelyn Waugh
Posted by Laguna Beach Fogey at 12:07
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Anonymous said...

The mother of all cop-outs !

09 September, 2014 16:58
Anonymous said...

Attributing to Divine intervention that which is achieved through one's own gumption (or even perhaps by a deterministic fate, a highly speculative position in itself) may indicate a certain false modesty; but I fail to see how the term "cop out" has any applicability to the statement at all.

10 September, 2014 11:43

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