Sebastian Faulks Quotes

It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.

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• The attempt to live that way, the attempt to treat everybody - it fails all the time - but the attempt to treat people as equals is a good attempt. It's a very good attempt. And there have been very few governments that have come anywhere near it in the past. The Greeks began to, the Romans began to - they both failed.

  

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• I can see the greed and envy in your eyes.

  

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• I'm psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That's just the way I've been about everything my whole life.

  

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• You should know that I lead, not follow.

  

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• The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.

  

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• I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.

  

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• THE POISON TREE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I water'd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears; And I sunned it with my smiles And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright; And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night had veil'd the pole: In the morning glad I see My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.

  

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• Metallica is the world to me - it always has been, and that's not going to change. I'm married to Metallica.

  

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• A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

  

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• The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

  

  John Milton
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• Humanity must accept that the food, the raw materials, the energy, the scientific knowledge and so on, belongs to everybody, that it is given by Divine providence for all peoples, the rich nations and what are called the developing nations. No one has the right to corner the goods of the world as is done today, whether that be oil or food or any of the things that we think are so important.

  

  Benjamin Creme
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• One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Pain
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• ...and I've had to call somebody who purports to be some sort of boiler man...am I just unlucky or are plumbers evil lying bags of shit?

  

  Ed Byrne
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• When somebody tells you a story, as long as that story lasts, you're caught in this sort of timeless moment.

  

  Michael Paterniti
  • Moment
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• It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Providence
  • Indifferent