Edward St Aubyn Quotes
Without speech, thoughts plough on like a train without tracks, buckling, crashing, ripping everything apart.
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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My personality is extremely unbalanced.
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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I love going to theatres and seeing honest little indie films I know nothing about... being surprised by a beautiful film I had no expectations about but just got lost in. I'd like to do more well-written indies. I don't know exactly what my dream role will be yet, but it's somewhere within that realm.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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I like to just feel how I feel and not worry about it really.
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For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.
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For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time.
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One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert.
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Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world, itself.
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Without speech, thoughts plough on like a train without tracks, buckling, crashing, ripping everything apart.
