"A single day spent doing things which fail……" — Michel Faber
"A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny."
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12 Quotes by Michel Faber
Michel Faber has 12 quotes on this site.
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Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.
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The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's…
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Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.
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Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.
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Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.
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I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.
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Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.
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But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a…
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Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of…
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Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events
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History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.
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More Day Quotes
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going…
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short…
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you…
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People…
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less…
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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