The Unfinished Harauld Hughes Quotes

“And did any of the great Renaissance painters choose their own subjects? There must be more to life than crucifixion, but you wouldn't think it by flicking through their portfolios.”
― Richard Ayoade, The Unfinished Harauld Hughes

“I was a devotee of Bertold Brecht, and I knew that, through a considered process of alienating those around me, I would somehow arrive at a powerful truth.”
― Richard Ayoade, The Unfinished Harauld Hughes

“We talked about theatre, badminton, Yeats and the exhausting logistics of marital betrayal.”
― Richard Ayoade, The Unfinished Harauld Hughes

“I do not know this from experience, but if your profession is considered worthwhile, the question of one's enjoyment is seldom invoked.
'What do you do?'
'I am an orthopaedic surgeon.'
'And do you enjoy it?'
I can't shake the suspicion that the only explanation people can accommodate is that doing something as pointless as 'presenting' must engender an almost overwhelming rush of pleasure; that a life of triviality and inconsequence is the price I must pay for such unimaginable joy.”
― Richard Ayoade, The Unfinished Harauld Hughes

“Faust got it wrong. The sale of one’s soul isn’t a one-off deal. It’s daily. The soul must be scraped, a section at a time, as with a skin graft, in the hope that sufficient new tissue regenerates to facilitate future transactions.”
― Richard Ayoade, The Unfinished Harauld Hughes

“How did that sense of loyalty play into his affairs?”
― Richard Ayoade, The Unfinished Harauld Hughes