Quotes by Sebastian Faulks

About Sebastian Faulks:

Sebastian Charles Faulks is a British novelist, journalist, and broadcaster. He is best known for his historical novels set in France – The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong, and Charlotte Gray. He has also published novels with a contemporary setting, most recently A Week in December (2009), and a James Bond continuation novel, Devil May Care. He is a team captain on BBC Radio 4 literary quiz The Write Stuff.
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The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.

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One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.

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

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This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.

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I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

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We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.

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She was so beautiful I had to move away.

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There was a pretty young woman I used to see pegging out sheets and I worried that she would grow old there and that no one would know how beautiful she was. And maybe she would die without ever having really lived.

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With no blame there's no shame. A human society can't exist without shame. Shame is like handedness or walking upright. It's a central human attribute. In fact, it's the first human quality ever recorded.' 'Where?' 'Genesis, Chapter Three. The coveri...

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And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.

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It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.

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I wonder what it's like to be dead.

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I looked at him on the bed. He coughed once and a trail of brownish dead blood came out of his mouth and ran down the side of his chin. Then he stopped breathing. And I thought, I'll make sure I never end up here, either.

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Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?

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The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

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I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.

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How grand, to be a Doctor of whatever and to weigh up and decide people's future.

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Grief is a peculiar emotion.

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I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it.

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That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

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And in that history you're trying to connect to something that once was yours - to something purer, better, something that you lost or something, maybe, that you never knew but that you feel you knew.

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Author Bio

  • NameSebastian Faulks
  • Descriptionjournalist and novelist
  • BornApril 20, 1953
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Journalist; Novelist
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire