Edward St Aubyn Quotes

He had brought nothing to read except The Tibetan Book of the Dead, hoping to find its exotic iconography ridiculous enough to purge any fantasies he might still cling to about consciousness continuing after death.

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• I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.

  

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• You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

  

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• Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.

  

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• Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

  

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• Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

  

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• William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.

  

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• It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.

  

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• I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.

  

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• 'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

  

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• There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

  

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• Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

  

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• I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.

  

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• The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'

  

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• Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.

  

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• I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.

  

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• I'm honored to be one of the guys that is seen as a leader of this great team - a team that has stood the test of time. AKA is one of the only teams that has been around since the beginning of the MMA explosion, and it's a huge honor for me to be named captain.

  

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• In droves, filling the doorway

  

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• There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

  

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• Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

  

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• Mo: to Anjali Don't you 'whatever' me, you postmodern prepubescent!

  

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• He had brought nothing to read except The Tibetan Book of the Dead, hoping to find its exotic iconography ridiculous enough to purge any fantasies he might still cling to about consciousness continuing after death.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
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  • Death