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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
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Sebastian Charles Faulks
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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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The end-of-summer winds make people restless.
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Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?
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That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.
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My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.
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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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Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.
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Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.
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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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The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.
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There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved.
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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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But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.
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Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?
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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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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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