Edward St. Aubyn Short Quotes

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Never use a conditional tense when it comes to money.

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More./What for? was a rhyme that deserved to be made more often.

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The tragedy of old age, when a man's too weak to hit his own child.

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Death was kind of a boisterous egomaniac that needed no encouragement.

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No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.

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No man is an island — although one's known a surprising number who own one.

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It must be hard to be exclusively social and entirely friendless at the same time.

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When a man of my father's wealth dies of cancer, you know they haven't found a cure.

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His decision to study the law had got him as far as hiring Twelve Angry Men from a video shop.

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Above all, he wanted to stop being a child without using the cheap disguise of becoming a parent.

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'Aren't people funny? I don't find where one sits at dinner fascinating at all,' lied the Princess.

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Of course it was wrong to want to change people, but what else could you possibly want to do with them?

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Men used to tell me how they used butter for sex, now they tell me how they've eliminated it from their diet.

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Without speech, thoughts plough on like a train without tracks, buckling, crashing, ripping everything apart.

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What is a strain is being forced into the lobster pot of good behaviour while being forced to sing its praises.

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But do you know what struck me, apart from Nancy's vibrant self-pity, which she had the nerve to pretend was grief?

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'Look at her,' said Patrick, 'pacing around the cage of her Valentino dress, longing to be released into her natural habitat.'

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Gothic script seemed to warp every letter that passed through the door of the funeral parlour, as if death were a German village.

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The tragedy was that five or perhaps ten years of decent five-day-a-week analysis could have mitigated the problem significantly.

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She glimpsed the pink flowers of a magnolia protesting against the black-and-white half-timbered facade of a mock-Tudor side street.

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They said it was the only way to stop her running up debts, but the best way to stop her running up debts was to give her more money.

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The claim that every man kills the thing he loves seemed to him a wild guess compared with the near certainty of a man turning into the thing he hates.

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Looks didn't last forever and she wasn't ready for religion yet. Money was kind of a good compromise, staked up somewhere between cosmetics and eternity.

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Thank goodness there were people who were happy with nothing, thought Julia, so that people like her (and everyone else she had ever met), could have more.

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It was virtually impossible to think of a sentence that made a positive use of that dreadful word 'enough', let alone one that started raving about 'nothing'.

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