Edward St Aubyn Quotes
When a man of my father’s wealth dies of cancer, you know they haven’t found a cure.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.
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I don't know why, but in my career and in my life, I often find myself in situations where I am the only girl among boys.
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The young are really the heirs to a generation of incompetence.
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As many times as I've seen 'The Merchant of Venice,' I always take Shylock's side. For all the hatred that guy is shown, he has a reason to hate in return. He's treated cruelly. And it's tragic that he learns to be intolerant because of what others do to him.
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In some cases radiation reduces the incidence of cancer.
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When a man of my father’s wealth dies of cancer, you know they haven’t found a cure.
