Edward St. Aubyn - Some hope (1994)

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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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Quite recently, to his horror, he had realized he would have to get a job. He was therefore studying to become a barrister, in the hope that he would find some pleasure in keeping as many criminals as possible at large.

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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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'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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Johnny stopped and leaned over, partly from curiosity, but also to disguise the fact that his sexual efforts could not compete with the mention of such a large sum of money.

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

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

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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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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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Mind you, I don't know why people get so fixated on happiness, which always eludes them, when there are so many other invigorating experiences available, like rage, jealousy, disgust, and so forth.

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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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In the eight years since his father's death, Patrick's youth had slipped away without being replaced by any signs of maturity, unless the tendency for sadness and exhaustion to eclipse hatred and insanity could be called 'mature'.

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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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All I can say is that the Great Barrier Reef is the most vulgar thing I've ever seen. It's one's worst nightmare, full of frightful loud colours, peacock blues, and impossible oranges all higgledy-piggledy while one's mask floods.

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