"You can only give things up once they start to let you down."

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Source : Edward St Aubyn (2014). “The Patrick Melrose Novels: Picador Classic”, p.285, Pan Macmillan

Edward St Aubyn

“Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I do have a dream, a tableau of the bathing place of La GrenouillÃ¨re, for which I've done some bad pochades (sketches), but it is a dream. Renoir, who have just spent a couple of months here, also wants to paint this subject.”
“... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.”
“If your life is going to be dictated by what's comfortable, your life will stink.”
“I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.”
“All my Ex's live in Texas, and that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee.”

Source : Song: All My Ex's Live In Texas
“Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.”
“The more we focus on using renewable fuels, the less we are dependent upon foreign oil.”

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