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Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.
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Men
Adverbs
Argument
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You can only give things up once they start to let you down.
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I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?
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Horror
Laughter
Thinking
Escaped
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No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.
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Bigs
Hurt
Pain
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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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Feels
Impossible
Novel
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Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.
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Clinging
Stuck
Usual
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It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.
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Conversation
Together
Use
Bringing
Imagining
Inevitably
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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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Attractive
Attractive Things
Difficult
Writing
Subject
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People never remeber happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.
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Care
People
Suffering
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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 was in.
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Dramatic
Facts
Trying
Life Truth My Life
Discover
Uncover
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The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.
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New York
Adorable
Book
Love New Story
Fell
Harbor
Operating
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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 win either. It's irrelevant.
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Championship
Heavyweights
Irrelevant
Winning
World
World Me Win
Heavyweight
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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 point they get to be right.
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Believe
Dying
People
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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 forces that they had no control over.
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Detachment
People
Way
Any Other Way
Me People Control
Forces
Me Control People
Interests
No Control
Product
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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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Ideas
Telling The Truth
Whole
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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 are created by literary effects.
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Book
Effects
People
Reading
Literary
Mental
Operation
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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.
Edward St Aubyn / Author
Liberating
Telling The Truth
Attempt
Salutary
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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 things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.
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Giving Up
Mean
Two
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Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company. I think Proust is the most intelligent person to ever have written a novel.
Edward St Aubyn / Author
Astonishing
Hero
Impact
Intelligent
Intelligent Person
Proust
Reader
Reading
La
Slow
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I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the author would just feed on the reviews - so I'm in favour of starving him.
Edward St Aubyn / Author
Favour
Involved
Process
Reviews
Starving
Want
Writing
Writer
Author
Feed
Necessarily
Reinforce
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Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of happiness, the ones who won't drink too much, give up, get divorced, become mentally ill. The part of oneself that's fighting against decay and depression is transferred to guarding them from decay and depression. In the meantime one decays and gets depressed.
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Children
Fighting
Giving Up
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