"If your mind works like a cash register, anything you come up with is bound to be cheap"
— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
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Work Title
Date
1992
Metaphor
"If your mind works like a cash register, anything you come up with is bound to be cheap"
Metaphor in Context
'The idiotic ones aren't good,' Anne agreed, 'but there's no need for the cash register to come up with something cheap.' 'If your mind works like a cash register, anything you come up with is bound to be cheap.'
(p. 159)
(p. 159)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Quotations drawn from Edward St. Aubyn, The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk (New York: Picador, 2012).
Date of Entry
09/26/2015
