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This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious conscious but not aware aware, but intermittently.

Sebastian Faulks

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Sebastian Faulks
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: April 20
Broadcaster
Journalist
Novelist
Parodist
Writer
Sebastian Charles Faulks
Live
People
Intermittently
Aware
Conscious
Alive

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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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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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If you have only one life, you cant altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?
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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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It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.
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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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That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.
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I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be
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He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.
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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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I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.
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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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Something had been buried that was not yet dead.
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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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. . . she read with undifferentiated glee . . .
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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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But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.
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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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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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