Sebastian Faulks Quotes
He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.
Sebastian Faulks
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Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!
Gabriel Mann
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I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.
Keanu Reeves
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As captain, I must always be an example to my team-mates. I'm calm and I don't have any problem with the coach or with the club. My only goal is to be ready whenever I have the opportunity to play.
Alessandro Del Piero
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A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Some time ago," he said, "--how long it seems! -- I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade Spiller, never confuse the unusual with the impossible.' It is my guiding rule in life.
P. G. Wodehouse
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That's how it began. In those days, we had to lug around these enormous recorders and camera equipment and find a place to conceal them.
Allen Funt
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One of the things that sparked my interest in this is the case of Emmanuel Constant, who started a militia called FRAPH that was backed by the CIA. FRAPH killed thousands of Haitians in the early 1990s. Now while Constant is living comfortably in Queens, other Haitians are being deported. I wanted to see how those who have been bruised by people like that deal with coming face to face with their torturers.
Edwidge Danticat
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In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable law. The debtor would be incapable of appreciating the clemency which cancelled the debt, so long as he denied either the existence or the justice of the claim. Unconscious of the obligation, he would be insensible to the grace that remitted it.
Octavius Winslow
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When I was coming up through the ranks, not that many people carried a lot money of money on them. This was before checks and credit cards.
Doyle Brunson
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Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.
Euripides
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Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?
William Shakespeare
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When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
William Shakespeare
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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
Bram Stoker
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People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.
William Hazlitt
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In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.
Victor Hugo
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To me, writing is a very physical process. I lay out the entire book with the two narratives side by side on my bedroom floor, and just get down on my hands and knees and start looking at it in that physical space. "Does this really follow from this? Should this be here or elsewhere?" I will literally cut the paper into paragraphs. I'll cut it into segments and move the segments around from one narrative to the other until I feel that I've found the natural structure.
Erik Larson
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He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.
Sebastian Faulks
