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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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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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Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.
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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.
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It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.
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. . . she read with undifferentiated glee . . .
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The end-of-summer winds make people restless.
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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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He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.
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My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.
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One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.
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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.
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Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.
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Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?
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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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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 best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
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There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved.
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Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.
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I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.
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That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.
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