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“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.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Mother's Milk

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, The Patrick Melrose Novels

“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.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Mother's Milk