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My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.
Sebastian Faulks
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Sebastian Faulks
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: April 20
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Sebastian Charles Faulks
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If you have only one life, you cant altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?
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I have written millions of words about contemporary England - in journalism. Why don't I take it as the background for a novel? I may do one day. But the simple answer is that it does not excite the novelistic part of my brain it does not fire it up.
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The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.
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But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.
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That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.
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Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.
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Something had been buried that was not yet dead.
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I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it.
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It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.
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That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.
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I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be
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And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.
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Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?
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One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.
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Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.
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They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no such things as a coherent and fully integrated human personality, let alone consistent motivation.
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The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
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. . . she read with undifferentiated glee . . .
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The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.
Sebastian Faulks
He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.
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