"Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck,……" — Edward St Aubyn
"Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself."
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19 Quotes by Edward St Aubyn
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Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the…
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It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one…
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Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two…
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Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.
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I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?
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I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I…
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It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.
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The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to…
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The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of…
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The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.
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Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of…
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I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing.…
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Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain…
— William Ames
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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
— Nancy Friday
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Bitterness is a result of clinging to negative experiences. It serves you no good, and closes the door to your…
— Leon Brown
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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practicing whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just.…
— Meher Baba
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See what your misery is, what desires are causing it, and why you are clinging to those desires. And it…
— Rajneesh
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Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging. If change is the nature…
— Rajneesh
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Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.
— Rajneesh
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All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no…
— Rajneesh
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This is the whole secret of non-attachment: live in the world, but don't be of the world. Love people, but…
— Rajneesh
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I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.
— John Templeton
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