Sebastian Faulks Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“You put your time where your priority is.”
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“People never explain to you exactly what they think and feel and how their thoughts and feelings work, do they? They don't have time. Or the right words. But that's what books do. It's as though your daily life is a film in the cinema. It can be fun, looking at those pictures. But if you want to know what lies behind the flat screen you have to read a book. That explains it all.”
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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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“Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.”
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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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“Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.”
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“Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.”
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“Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.”
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“The end-of-summer winds make people restless.”
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“We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.”
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“One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.”
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“From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else’s, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.”
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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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“Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.”
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“There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved.”
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“My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.”
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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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“Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.”
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“It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on. I think in retrospect my generation will be seen as a turning point. From now on there'll be a net loss of knowledge in Europe. The difference between a peasant community in fourteenth-century Iran and modern London, though, is that if with their meager resources the villagers occasionally slipped backward, it was not for lack of trying. But with us, here in England, it was a positive choice. We chose to know less.”
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“I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.”
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“The thunder of false modesty was deafening.”
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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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“It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.”
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“I think I have fallen in love and I believe the woman in question, though she has not said so, returns my feelings. How can I be sure when she has said nothing? Is this youthful vanity? I wish in some ways that it were. But I am so convinced that I barely need question myself. This conviction brings me no joy.[…]I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if they may never be clear to me while I am alive.”
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“I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.”
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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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“I suppose I was lucky enough to be educated at a time when teachers still thought children could handle knowledge. They trusted us. Then there came a time when they decided that because not every kid in the class could understand or remember those things they wouldn't teach them anymore because it wasn't fair on the less good ones. So they withheld knowledge. Then I suppose the next lot of teachers didn't have the knowledge to withhold.”
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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.”
-- Sebastian Faulks
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