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The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
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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Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.
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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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I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.
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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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