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Mother's Milk
Edward St. Aubyn
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Nobody ever died of a feeling, he would say to himself, not believing a word of it, as he sweated his way through the feeling that he was dying of fear. People died of feelings all the time, once they had gone through the formality of materializing them into bullets and bottles and tumours.”
“Old enough to remember the arrival of 'Have a nice day', Patrick could only look with alarm on the hyperinflation of 'Have a great one'. Where would this Weimar of bullying cheerfulness end? 'You have a profound and meaningful day now.”
“Was he, after all, really a bad man doing a brilliant impersonation of an idiot? It was hard to tell. The connections between stupidity and malice were so tangled and so dense.”
“The past has all the time in the world. It's only the future which is running out.”
“So much road and so few places, so much friendliness and so little intimacy, so much flavour and so little taste.”
“The Park’s nice,’ his father conceded, ‘but the rest of the country is just people in huge cars wondering what to eat next.”
“The Park's nice,' his father conceded, 'but the rest of the country is just people in huge cars wondering what to eat next.”
“Talking of 'letting go of a lot of stuff,'" his father handed the phrase back to Seamus, held by the corner like someone else's used handkerchief....”
“She liked the feeling that Maine was basically inhospitable, that it would soon shake out its summer visitors, like a dog on a beach.”
“He had become so caught up in building sentences that he had almost forgotten the barbaric days when thinking was like a splash of color landing on a page.”
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