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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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Sebastian Faulks
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: April 20
Broadcaster
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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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