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Sebastian Faulks Quotes
Sebastian Faulks Quotes
Sebastian Faulks
British
Novelist
Born:
Apr 20
,
1953
Life
People
Think
Words
World
You
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I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time.
Sebastian Faulks
Life
Time
Valuable
Value
Thought
Life Is A
Lasts
Way
Criterion
Something
Only
Poets
Because
Am
Human
Just
Sensation
Just Because
Romantic
Literary
Whether
Which
Mean
Then
Fleeting
Human Life
Who
Whole
Waste
Waste Of Time
There aren't many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called 'Horned Pigeon.' He had been on the run and hadn't eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable.
Sebastian Faulks
Love
War
Food
Great
Book
World
Cheese
France
Run
Eastern
Eaten
Unbelievable
About
Kitchen
Week
Had
He
Written
Smells
House
Wrote
Pigeon
Passages
George
Been
His
Worked
Who
Many
Description
Second
Peasant
World War
Second World War
I believe that love between people is the greatest life-giving force in the world. It's intensely frustrating and inevitably makes a fool of you, but you can't stop going back to it, and it's pretty much the defining experience of a human being.
Sebastian Faulks
Love
You
Fool
Experience
People
Human Being
World
Believe
Back
Defining
Pretty
Between
Force
Makes
Greatest
Inevitably
Intensely
Going
Human
Stop
Being
Frustrating
Much
I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.
Sebastian Faulks
Life
You
Yourself
People
Think
Other
Books
Demands
Know
Particularly
Read
Deal
Understand
How
Equipped
Lot
Just
Decisions
Your
My ideal relationship with the reader is that at certain points they will have said, 'I'm finding this quite tough, but I'm going to hang in there,' then at the end they will say, 'Oh God, I'm glad I hung on, it was so worth it.'
Sebastian Faulks
God
Relationship
Worth
Will
Tough
Say
Hung
Worth It
Finding
Glad
Points
Ideal
Reader
Said
End
Hang
Going
Hang In There
Quite
Oh
Oh God
Then
Certain
There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.
Sebastian Faulks
Life
Believe
Something
More
Identity
Make
Tolerable
Thing
It is fair to say the New Testament is the most ethically sophisticated of the great scriptures; the proper comparison for the Qur'an is with the Old Testament - against which it holds its own.
Sebastian Faulks
Great
Old
Own
Say
Proper
New
Fair
Sophisticated
Most
Testament
New Testament
Holds
Which
Against
Scriptures
Ethically
Old Testament
Comparison
The nicest characters in 'A Week in December' are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them.
Sebastian Faulks
Defines
Characters
Muslims
One Of The Things
Religious
Fact
Week
Devotion
December
In Fact
Them
Nicest
Things
In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.
Sebastian Faulks
Sad
Good
Food
Long
Beginning
France
Memorable
Most
However
Been
Italy
Get
Just
Whereas
Meals
Decline
Starting
British
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 hint of elderflower cordial.
Sebastian Faulks
Life
Fool
Rest
My Life
Would
One Thing
Would-Be
Ginger
Eat
Only
Only One Thing
Could
Make
Hint
Which
If I Could
Thing
Cordial
I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression.
Sebastian Faulks
Depression
Battle
Tremendous
Melancholy
I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating.
Sebastian Faulks
Friendship
Death
Own
Sense
Think
Way
Kind
Worthlessness
Would
Would-Be
Pretty
Exhilarating
Selflessness
Closeness
Your
I've found contemporary Britain difficult to write about because it seems to me to have lacked gravity or grandeur. This is some cultural problem which I don't really understand. It simply isn't the same in the United States.
Sebastian Faulks
Me
Problem
Difficult
States
Some
About
Seems
Write
Simply
Contemporary
Because
Understand
Cultural
Same
Which
Grandeur
Really
Found
United
United States
Gravity
Britain
It's possible there are no two books in publishing history more dissimilar than 'Human Traces' and 'Devil May Care.' And that was really the attraction of it.
Sebastian Faulks
History
Care
Devil
Dissimilar
Books
Possible
More
Attraction
Traces
Than
May
Human
Really
Publishing
Two
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