"Surely: the adverb of a man without an…" — Edward St Aubyn
"Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument."
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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 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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More Adverb Quotes
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one of 13 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what…
— Larry McMurtry
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Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this…
— Elmore Leonard
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The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function,…
— William Zinsser
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A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.
— Bill Gaede
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I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character…
— Colum McCann
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Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly,…
— Jose Saramago
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Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.
— Jodi Picoult
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Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every…
— Joseph Heller
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Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark…
— Adrienne Rich
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No worries, Atticus. I will snarf surreptitiously. And I should get bacon, because my adverb was two syllables longer than…
— Kevin Hearne
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I've always loved the flirtatious tango of consonants and vowels, the sturdy dependability of nouns and capricious whimsy of verbs,…
— Dennis Miller
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Actually is far and away the most insulting adverb
— Nikhil Saluja
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