Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive. Sebastian Faulks More Quotes by Sebastian Faulks More Quotes From Sebastian Faulks The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart. Sebastian Faulks soulfeelingsheart You put your time where your priority is. Sebastian Faulks priorities People never explain to you exactly what they think and feel and how their thoughts and feelings work, do they? They don't have time. Or the right words. But that's what books do. It's as though your daily life is a film in the cinema. It can be fun, looking at those pictures. But if you want to know what lies behind the flat screen you have to read a book. That explains it all. Sebastian Faulks funbooklying Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be. Sebastian Faulks selfmemoriesmoving Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us. Sebastian Faulks choicesmademight Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender. Sebastian Faulks sweetnesssurrendergiving 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. Sebastian Faulks solitarylonelymean The end-of-summer winds make people restless. Sebastian Faulks summerwindpeople Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs. Sebastian Faulks lungsinhaleevening One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you. Sebastian Faulks londonstepsnight We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it. Sebastian Faulks musicianplaymen 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... tender. I regretted that I had paid it no attention. Then I believed in the wisdom of what other men had found before me... I saw that those simple things might be true... I never wanted to believe in them because it was better to fight my own battle. You can believe in something without compromising the burden of your own existence. Sebastian Faulks fightingsimplebelieve I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it. Sebastian Faulks chosenusedway 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 hintsfoolwould-be I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous. Sebastian Faulks frivolousgraves I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine. Sebastian Faulks voidsoulreflection 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. Sebastian Faulks oppositescardsthinking There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved. Sebastian Faulks I suppose I was lucky enough to be educated at a time when teachers still thought children could handle knowledge. They trusted us. Then there came a time when they decided that because not every kid in the class could understand or remember those things they wouldn't teach them anymore because it wasn't fair on the less good ones. So they withheld knowledge. Then I suppose the next lot of teachers didn't have the knowledge to withhold. Sebastian Faulks teacherkidschildren I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible. Sebastian Faulks invisible
