Double Blind Quotes

“Resentment used to be something folks wanted to get rid of, now they water it and put it on a windowsill, like a favourite pot plant.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Double Blind

“humility was the ultimate arrogance,”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Double Blind

“politicians seemed to be recruited exclusively from the locked wards of psychiatric hospitals,”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Double Blind

“promising, like a silver flute lying on a page of music.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Double Blind

“It was a profession that seemed to fuse compassion and brutality, without having to reveal which was the dominant impulse, as long as both were accompanied by a high degree of precision.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Double Blind

“To a foreign eye, America has so much philanthropy and so little charity. Most people have to kill themselves to prove that they deserve ordinary kindness, while a tiny group of people never stop boasting about how generous they are – as long as it’s tax-deductible.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Double Blind

“Anthropocene”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Double Blind

“most people found it hard to know what to do other than eat and drink around the clock in a conscientious drive to fill as many recycling bags as possible.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Double Blind

“Despite all their rooftop antics, the only proposition they really had to offer was that luck multiplied by time transubstantiated matter.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Double Blind

“psychopathy of surgeons; the most audacious and godlike healers, who were also the only group of people encouraged to slice open human bodies, saw off limbs, cut out flesh, remove organs and excise brain tissue, operating at the edge of paralysis, stroke and haemorrhage. It was a profession that seemed to fuse compassion and brutality, without having to reveal which was the dominant impulse, as long as both were accompanied by a high degree of precision.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Double Blind