Quote

I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.

Sebastian Faulks

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sebastian Faulks
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: April 20
Broadcaster
Journalist
Novelist
Parodist
Writer
Sebastian Charles Faulks
Rumbled
Invisible
Like

More quotes by Sebastian Faulks

Image
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
Image
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.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
The end-of-summer winds make people restless.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious conscious but not aware aware, but intermittently.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
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.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
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.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
Something had been buried that was not yet dead.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
. . . she read with undifferentiated glee . . .
Sebastian Faulks
Image
There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
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.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
If you have only one life, you cant altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?
Sebastian Faulks
Image
The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
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.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.
Sebastian Faulks