Sebastian Faulks Quotes

Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.

Sebastian Faulks

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• I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

  

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• If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.

  

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• The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.

  

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• The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words.

  

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• I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

  

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• I'm taking a vow not to advise.

  

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• I certainly wished I hadn't stressed quite as much or had such insecurity at times. I wish I had trusted my instincts on some occasions when I didn't and I wish I had listened to better advice when I didn't. But overall, I have to look at the glass as half full and acknowledge that I am all of the moments of my life, the good and the not so good.

  

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• For me, there is no hope without faith. Faith is a higher good. Faith in our divinity.

  

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• When I'm writing obviously I have all the nostalgia in the world, I have all the emotion in the world, but then when I actually perform, I need to just perform it, and that's it. I do retain like a little bit of it because I have to, I sing and perform the songs so I have to - it's a performance of the songs - but I just have to get the right balance.

  

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• As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.

  

  Janet Jackson
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• It is likely that many of the organizations reporting an intrusion did not realize the duration, extent or severity of the intrusion, or detected only a portion of multiple separate intrusions during the reporting period.

  

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• Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

  

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• No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.

  

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• Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

  

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• A lot of times the movies I think are the funniest are dramas. I feel like dramas are so much funnier because they're actually capturing human beings. Humans are so weird and clumsy, and that, to me, often makes me laugh more.

  

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• We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.

  

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• Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

  

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• Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Feelings
  • Alive
  • Pettiness