Sebastian Faulks Quotes
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'
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Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.
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I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.
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To win at Augusta and to win The Open Championship at St. Andrews, it's hard to put it into words as a golfer, as an athlete, as a guy - I'm not rich in history, I can tell you that. I'm not a great historian.
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I often wonder that if I had met Hitler, I reckon I might have found some streak of decency in him.
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凡是敵人反對的，我們就要擁護；凡是敵人擁護的，我們就要反對。
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He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for them once and for all. He was being judged by what he had been. Just as dogs don't change character, men are dogs to one another.
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I had a dog named Oliver with severe separation anxiety. He couldn't be alone... so I had to bring him wherever I went.
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Anytime that another artist or a critic that is well-respected says something nice about you, you're always thankful and hope that you can live up to that.
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I do a lot of dry shampoo. My hair just works better when it's not as clean!
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I'm very happy that Paul Ryan has decided to treat Donald Trump like a Zika mosquito: avoid contact, or you will be infected.
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My animals are a really important part of my life.
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I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.
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You can't just stick someone's name on a headphone that doesn't know anything about sound.
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
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Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.
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Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
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Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?
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Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.
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Fear and ignorance fuel so much homophobia.
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The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.
