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The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.

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Edward St Aubyn

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.

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Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.

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No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.

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Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.

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Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up. . . They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of happiness, the ones who won't drink too much, give up, get divorced, become mentally ill. The part of oneself that's fighting against decay and depression is transferred to guarding them from decay and depression. In the meantime one decays and gets depressed.

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It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

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