Sebastian Faulks Quotes
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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 real problem is not the religion itself, but its insistence that the interpretation it offers of the world is the only valid interpretation.
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I believe that this was God's Will - to send a boy into the Reich, to let him become its Leader, in order to bring his home country into the Reich. Otherwise one must doubt Providence.
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Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.
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Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.
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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.
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It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.
