Quotes by Michel Faber

About Michel Faber:

Michel Faber is a Dutch-born writer of fiction, including his 2002 novel The Crimson Petal and the White.
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A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.

Michel Faber

But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes advantage of His inattention to grant an illicit mercy. God...is an Anglican, whereas Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of...

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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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Hoy día, su vida se asemeja más bien a un periódico: sin sentido, al día y lleno de sucesos disparatados.

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You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.

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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 just a memory.

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She talks about being a Christian as if it’s a gym membership you can sign up for.

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These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.

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How’s things, man?” The black man extended his hand for a handshake. Mathematical formulae were jotted on the sleeve of his shirt, right up to the elbow. “Very good,” said Peter. It had never occurred to him before that dark-skinned people di...

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Some people go through the heavy stuff. They fight in wars. They're in jail. They start a business and it gets shut down by gangsters. They end up hustling their ass in a foreign country. It's one long list of setbacks and humiliations. But it doesn'...

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What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

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Peter was struck by the scar’s essential nature: it was not a disfigurement, it was a miracle. All the scars ever suffered by anyone in the whole of human history were not suffering but triumph: triumph against decay, triumph against death.

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Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed, a nest of animal intimacy. Words could be misunderstood, whereas loving companionship bred trust.

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You one of those decaffeinated Christians, ? The diabetic wafer? Doctrine-free, guilt-reduced, low in Last judgement, 100% less Second Coming, no added Armageddon? Might contain small traces of crucified Jew?

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I wouldn’t use the word ‘man’. The Hebrew is , which I would argue encompasses both sexes.

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And you know what people immediately start looking for, five minutes after they arrive someplace new? You know what’s on their minds? I’ll tell you: How are they gonna get laid, and where are they gonna find some mind-altering substances.

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People and their dwellings were such a thin dust on the surface of the globe, like invisible specks of bacteria on an orange, and the feeble lights of kebab shops and supermarkets failed utterly to register on the infinities of space above.

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Clothes are nothing more than a fig leaf. And the bodies beneath are just another layer of clothing, an outfit of flesh with an impractically thin leather exterior, in various shades of pink, yellow and brown. The souls alone are real. Seen in this w...

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Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job.

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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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There is so little in the New Testament about sexual love, and most of it consists of Paul heaving a deep sigh and tolerating it like a weakness.

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Author Bio

  • NameMichel Faber
  • Descriptionnovelist
  • BornApril 13, 1960
  • CountryNetherlands
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist