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In the eight years since his father’s death, Patrick’s youth had slipped away without being replaced by any signs of maturity, unless the tendency for sadness and exhaustion to eclipse hatred and insanity could be called ‘mature’.

— Edward St. Aubyn

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Of course it was wrong to want to change people, but what else could you possibly want to do with them?

What is a strain is being forced into the lobster pot of good behaviour while being forced to sing its praises.

It must be hard to be exclusively social and entirely friendless at the same time.

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The tragedy of old age, when a man’s too weak to hit his own child.

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