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One Quotes by Sebastian Faulks
- It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.
- But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.
- They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no…
- Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart.
- This intimacy is not necessary; no one is compelling me to open my inmost self and lay it naked, undefended, against that of another –…
- My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98…
- Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life…
- If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this chance to move…
- The men loved jokes, though they had heard each one before. Jack's manner was persuasive; few of them had seen the old stories so well…
- My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.
- One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.
- One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.
- He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.
- If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where…
- All my books are about one major idea and two or three subsidiary ones. I have thought a lot about music when constructing books, and…
- If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a…
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