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It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.
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 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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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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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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My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.
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Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.
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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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It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.
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There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved.
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He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.
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