"The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to……" — Edward St Aubyn
"The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth."
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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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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
— Francis Bacon
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I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young,…
— Kevin Bacon
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
— Balthus
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
— Amelia Barr
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The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat.…
— Max Baucus
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get…
— Kate Beckinsale
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
— Alfred Adler
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to…
— Wendell Berry
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
— Theodor Adorno
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Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been…
— Michael Bloomberg
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