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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.

Sebastian Faulks

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Sebastian Faulks
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: April 20
Broadcaster
Journalist
Novelist
Parodist
Writer
Sebastian Charles Faulks
Lived
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Derivatives
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Banks
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Futures

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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.
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Something had been buried that was not yet dead.
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That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.
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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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I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.
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Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?
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I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.
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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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. . . she read with undifferentiated glee . . .
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It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.
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I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.
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Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.
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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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It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.
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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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Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.
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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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The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
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My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.
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If you have only one life, you cant altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?
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