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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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The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
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Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.
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That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.
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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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This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious conscious but not aware aware, but intermittently.
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Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?
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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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It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.
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