Sebastian Faulks Quotes
Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
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I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.
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When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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Whenever I'm out and I hear something, I'm writing. It's the process of writing it down and then just always creating wherever you go. I never stop creating.
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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Nothing stays the same, Gina, nothing works forever. If I don’t like it, that’s too bad. If you don’t like it, that’s still too bad.
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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
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I interpret contemporary human social behavior to comprise hypertrophic outgrowths of the simpler features of human nature joined together into an irregular mosaic.
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In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success-if you are willing to learn from it.
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I do not care if the guy is yellow or black, or if he has stripes like a zebra. I'm the manager of this team, and I say he plays. What's more, I say he can make us all rich. And if any of you cannot use the money, I will see that you are all traded.
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An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.
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All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
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But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.
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Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.
