[b]Edward St. Aubyn
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.[/b]
Same when we go in the other direction too.
I was thinking that a life is just the history of what we give our attention to, said Patrick. The rest is packaging.
For most [as often as not] the packaging of others.
His conscience, like a sunburnt scorpion, was stinging itself to death.
Of course we’ll have to know the reasons why. Right now, I can’t even imagine doing it myself
As Anne watched her, she could not help thinking of the age-old question every woman asks herself at some time or other: do I have to swallow it?
And, no, not just that stuff.
Snobbery is one of the things one should be most discriminating about.
You know, in case you actually have to justify it.
Thanks for putting that in terms I can easily grasp, said Malcolm, without showing the patronizing bitch the slightest sign of irony.
You’ll either pull this off or you won’t.