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Dunbar QUOTES

Dunbar QUOTES

1 " Was this the triumph of self-knowledge: to suffer more lucidly? "

― Edward St. Aubyn , Dunbar

2 " I'll let you in on a little secret, Garry: everything is history. By the time you notice it, it's already happened. That famous imposter, "the present," disappears in the cognitive gap. Mind the gap! "

― Edward St. Aubyn , Dunbar

3 " Why was he in this state? Or perhaps the question was why had he not always been in this state? Why had he not always found life so disturbing and so poignant? "

― Edward St. Aubyn , Dunbar

4 " The leafless trees, with their black branches stretched hysterically in every direction, looked to him like illustrations of a central nervous system racked by disease: studies of human suffering anatomized against the winter sky. "

― Edward St. Aubyn , Dunbar

5 " Is there ever anything to get unduly worried about,' Peter couldn't help asking, 'when there are so many things to worry about duly? "

― Edward St. Aubyn , Dunbar

6 " The next thing that happened was that he forgot the last thing that happened. "

― Edward St. Aubyn , Dunbar

7 " There was no satisfaction in betraying people who had already defected. "

― Edward St. Aubyn , Dunbar