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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Heisenberg and Bohr and Einstein strike me as being like gifted retriever dogs. Off they go, not just for an afternoon, but for ten years; they come back exhausted and triumphant and drop at your feet... a vole. It's a remarkable thing in its way, a ...

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Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

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We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

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A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.

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One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.

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The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.

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The physical shock took away the pain of being.

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The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.

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It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.

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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 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana’s don’t do psychological consistency. And the tiny part of us that’s different - the special H...

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All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed.

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I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.

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The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

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You put your time where your priority is.

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Until we can navigate in time, I'm not sure that we can prove that what happened is real.

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We're not really conscious of what we're doing most of the time.

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All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had searched in superstition... But there was nothing. Then I heard the sound of my own life leaving me. It was so......

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There is an arch supported by four vast columns. Etched over hundreds and hundreds of yards of stone, furlongs of stone, there are names: "Who are these, these? The men who died in this battle?" "No. The lost, the ones they did not find. The others a...

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I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

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This is not a war, this is a test of how far man can be degraded

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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