Edward St Aubyn Quotes

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

Edward St Aubyn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 14, 1960

Topics

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Going across the Tannai Desert was one of the spookiest experiences I've ever had. Not driving during the day; that was fine. And so we camped in an old sort of truck siding, I think. And the silence. The eerie silence and then a dingo howling, and it was just so spooky. I didn't sleep all night.

Joan Kirner

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With us, it's a very specific audience. If you like steak, this is it for you.

Jerry Only

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Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

John Ruskin

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Our next CEO needs to thrive in a highly dynamic environment, to be capable of accelerating what is working very well for Cisco and disrupting what needs to change.

John T. Chambers

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I do not like a quiche with wet, undercooked pastry underneath, and that is that.

Mary Berry

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Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.

Michael Korda

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Make sure you are clear about the expectations your boss has for you.

Judy Smith

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I don't like to eat when I watch films because it distracts me. Anything crunchy or in a wrapper is terrible.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.

Jose Rizal

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You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

Chris Daughtry

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If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

Coretta Scott King

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Boko Haram, by itself, has destroyed large areas in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.

Pete Hoekstra

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