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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

Topics: Astonishing Being Company Ever Go Had Hero Impact Intelligent Intelligent Person La Main Mine Most My Own Novel Own Person Read Reader Reading Slow Think Very Written I Think

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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

Topics: Attempt Based Idea Liberating Power Series Some Tell Telling Telling The Truth 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.

~Edward St Aubyn

Topics: Books Created Effects Literary Mental Operation Other People Reading Really Responsible Than Which

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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.

~Edward St Aubyn

Topics: Championship Either Going Heavyweight Interest Irrelevant Me More Than Which Win World

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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.

~Edward St Aubyn

Topics: Discover Dramatic Facts Life My Life Situations Truth Trying Uncover

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Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.

~Edward St Aubyn

Topics: About Attractive Difficult Happiness Subject Thing Well Write

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The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.

~Edward St Aubyn

Topics: About Feel Impossible Novels Out Set Thing

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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.

~Edward St Aubyn

Topics: Any Any Other Way Been Control Detachment Forces Had How Interests Me No Control Other Over People Product Seeing Way Were

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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.

~Edward St Aubyn

Topics: Adorable Book Fell First Harbor Little Love New New York Operating Out Story York

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It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.

~Edward St Aubyn

Topics: Bringing Conversation Great Imagining Inevitably Together Use Writers

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: January 14th, 1960

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