"I think that some laughter comes from escaped……" — Edward St Aubyn
"I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?"
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19 Quotes by Edward St Aubyn
Edward St Aubyn has 19 quotes on this site.
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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'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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I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which…
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More Escaped Quotes
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Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken…
— Coco Chanel
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Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away…
— Unknown Author
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All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no…
— David Starr Jordan
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In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none…
— Elinor Wylie
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Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have…
— Samuel Johnson
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All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever…
— George Orwell
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Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.
— Seneca the Younger
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It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for…
— Francis Crick
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A Jesus had to be crucified because he was an alive man. He must have called in his childhood, "Jesus,…
— Rajneesh
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To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to…
— Walter Raleigh
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They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped…
— John Szarkowski
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