Alec Waugh
Sign in to saveAlso known as Alexander Raban Waugh, Maj. Alexander Raban Waugh
British novelist (1898–1981)
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- Born
- 8 July 1898
- Died
- 3 September 1981
- Works
- 202
Top works
- Thirteen such years
- Myself when young
- Merchants of wine
- In praise of wine and certain noble spirits
- Modern prose literature
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,281x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,796x
- 2021 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease
· 2021 · cited 5,001x
- 2017 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease
· 2017 · cited 4,835x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,417x
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Quotes
- “As military regulations state that it is the duty of every to make immediate and strenuous effort to escape, and as every man is at heart an adventurer, it is not surprising that our languid community was from time to time regaled by the rumours of impending sorties.”
- “To the as to the Arabs, a sleek, well-fed appearance was something to be proud of, a proof of prosperity and success. It was assumed that any man who could afford to would "do himself well." A thin man was either unhealthy or poor—both of which were crimes in the 1870s.”
- “I had reached shortly after breakfast. Letters of introduction had gone ahead of me, and within three hours I was sipping a very dry martini on the balcony of a bungalow situated on the far side of the mountain range that divides the island. A thousand feet below me 'the bright blue meadow a bay' washed in varying shades of green and turquoise against a long . Beyond it stretched an archipelago of islands, some British, some American, some a bare grazing ground for goats.”
- “I returned to civilian life, agreeing with , that the first duty of a wine was to be red, adding my own corollary that its second duty was to be .”
- “I am prepared to believe that a slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does to the soul.”
- “There comes some time an end to all things, to the good and to the bad.”
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