"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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Source : "Edward St Aubyn: 'Writing is horrible'". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

Edward St Aubyn

#Winning Quotes #Heavyweights Quotes #World Quotes

“If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love.”

Source : David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I have one speed, I have one gear: go!”
“I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women of sense--but by aiming at what they had not, they only proved absurd--for sense cannot be counterfeited.”
“I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing.”

Source : "Terrence McNally: Looking at AIDS Survivors". Interview with Sharon Bernstein, articles.latimes.com. March 4, 1990.
“What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?”
“There is redemption in every song.”
“The way we get to live forever is through memories stored in the hearts and souls of those whose lives we touch. That's our soul print. It's our comfort, our emotional nourishment at the end of the day and the end of a life. How wonderful that they are called up at will and savored randomly. It seems to me we should spend our lives in a conscious state of creating these meaningful moments that live on. Memories matter.”
“Then I lie down on the horse blanket and drift into a dream about Marlena that will probably cost me my soul.”

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