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Evelyn Waugh, as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten
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.
— Evelyn Waugh, 1938

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Quote reproduced in
  • Crystal, David; Hillary Crystal (2000). Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages. University of Chicago Press, Page 277. ISBN 0226122018.