{"author":"Edward St. Aubyn","author_id":"Edward+St.+Aubyn","total_quotes":11,"quotes":[{"text":"An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor sleeping with an undergraduate, let alone a president with an intern.","author":"Edward St. Aubyn","tags":["editor","writer"],"id":20772,"author_id":"Edward+St.+Aubyn"},{"text":"An image flashed across her mind of two rams flinging their heads against each other on a rocky mountainside. What did the girl rams do? Faint with pleasure? Clap their cloven hooves? Lean against some nearby boulders, with little tubs of mountain grass, discussing the battle?","author":"Edward St. Aubyn","tags":["butting-their-heads","discussing","girl-rams","pleasure","rams"],"id":114392,"author_id":"Edward+St.+Aubyn"},{"text":"His conscience, like a sunburnt scorpion, was stinging itself to death.","author":"Edward St. Aubyn","tags":["conscience"],"id":155228,"author_id":"Edward+St.+Aubyn"},{"text":"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.","author":"Edward St. Aubyn","tags":["seamus-dourke","stupidity"],"id":177692,"author_id":"Edward+St.+Aubyn"},{"text":"Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?","author":"Edward St. Aubyn","tags":["anti-capitalism","anti-imperialism","anti-war","socialism"],"id":194763,"author_id":"Edward+St.+Aubyn"},{"text":"The measure of a work of art is how much art it has in it, not how much ‘relevance’. Relevant to whom? Relevant to what? Nothing is more ephemeral than a hot topic.","author":"Edward St. Aubyn","tags":["art","literature"],"id":219066,"author_id":"Edward+St.+Aubyn"},{"text":"Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.","author":"Edward St. Aubyn","tags":["depression"],"id":223908,"author_id":"Edward+St.+Aubyn"},{"text":"People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.","author":"Edward St. Aubyn","tags":["happiness","suffering"],"id":224837,"author_id":"Edward+St.+Aubyn"},{"text":"If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal.","author":"Edward St. Aubyn","tags":["betrayal","closed-doors","cruelty"],"id":246726,"author_id":"Edward+St.+Aubyn"},{"text":"Old enough to remember the arrival of 'Have a nice day', Patrick could only look with alarm on the hyperinflation of 'Have a great one'. Where would this Weimar of bullying cheerfulness end? 'You have a profound and meaningful day now.","author":"Edward St. Aubyn","tags":["america","humor"],"id":351313,"author_id":"Edward+St.+Aubyn"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}