“The measure of a work of art is how much art it has in it, not how much ‘relevance’. Relevant to whom?… — Edward St. Aubyn Art Copy Share Image
“That was the wonderful thing about historical novels, one met so many famous people. It was like reading a very old copy… — Edward St. Aubyn Books Copy Share Image
“Is there ever anything to get unduly worried about,' Peter couldn't help asking, 'when there are so many things to worry about… — Edward St. Aubyn Concern Copy Share Image
“The leafless trees, with their black branches stretched hysterically in every direction, looked to him like illustrations of a central nervous system… — Edward St. Aubyn Analogy Copy Share Image
“The Park's nice,' his father conceded, 'but the rest of the country is just people in huge cars wondering what to eat… — Edward St. Aubyn Americans Copy Share Image
“As Anne watched her, she could not help thinking of the age-old question every woman asks herself at some time or other:… — Edward St. Aubyn Every woman Copy Share Image
“Personally I think that competition should be encouraged in war and sport and business, but that it makes no sense in the… — Edward St. Aubyn Art Copy Share Image
“At the beginning, there had been talk of using some of her money to start a home for alcoholics. In a sense… — Edward St. Aubyn Money Copy Share Image
“He found her pretty in a bewildered, washed-out way, but it was her restlessness that aroused him, the quiet exasperation of a… — Edward St. Aubyn Arousal Copy Share Image
“Classically, the patient went into psychotherapy because she was neurotic from the suppression of her perverse desires, now she goes into psychotherapy… — Edward St. Aubyn Patience Copy Share Image
“With her curling blond hair and her slender limbs and her beautiful clothes, Inez was alluring in an obvious way, and yet… — Edward St. Aubyn Beauty Copy Share Image
“We are entering the Dark Ages, my friend, but this time there will be lots of neon, and screen savers, and street… — Edward St. Aubyn Dark ages Copy Share Image
“It was never quite clear to Eleanor why the English thought it was so distinguished to have done nothing for a long… — Edward St. Aubyn Long time Copy Share Image
“Above all, she was a baby, not a 'big baby' like so many adults, but a small baby perfectly preserved in the… — Edward St. Aubyn Money Copy Share Image
“Mind you, I don’t know why people get so fixated on happiness, which always eludes them, when there are so many other… — Edward St. Aubyn Anger Copy Share Image
“Just as a novelist may sometimes wonder why he invents characters who do not exist and makes them do things which do… — Edward St. Aubyn Philosophy Copy Share Image
“In my rather brief medical practice,' said David modestly, 'I found that people spend their whole lives imagining they are about to… — Edward St. Aubyn Life Copy Share Image
“How could he think his way out of the problem when the problem was the way he thought...” — Edward St. Aubyn Problem solving Copy Share Image
“In England, art was much less likely to be mentioned in polite society than sexual perversions or methods of torture.” — Edward St. Aubyn Art Copy Share Image
“I'll let you in on a little secret, Garry: everything is history. By the time you notice it, it's already happened. That… — Edward St. Aubyn Cognition Copy Share Image
“He had become so caught up in building sentences that he had almost forgotten the barbaric days when thinking was like a… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
“What could he do but accept the disturbing extent to which memory was fictional and hope that the fiction lay at the… — Edward St. Aubyn Truth Copy Share Image
“Was this the triumph of self-knowledge: to suffer more lucidly?” — Edward St. Aubyn Clarity Copy Share Image
“There seemed to be no one in a position of power, from the Vatican to Wall Street, from Parliament to Scotland Yard… — Edward St. Aubyn Abuse Copy Share Image
