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I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.
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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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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Something had been buried that was not yet dead.
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Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.
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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.
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He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.
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In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.
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But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.
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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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That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.
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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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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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I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.
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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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My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.
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. . . she read with undifferentiated glee . . .
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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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The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.
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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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There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved.
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One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.
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