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• He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the church, but it had its own clarity: the row on row, the deep rotting earth hollowed out to hold them, while the efforts of the living, with all their works and wars and great buildings, were no more than the beat of a wing against the weight of time.

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  War, Wings, Effort

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• Some crime against nature is about to be committed. I feel it in my veins. These men and boys are grocers and clerks, gardeners and fathers - fathers of small children. A country cannot bear to lose them.

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  Country, Children, Father

  Sebastian Faulks (2010). “Birdsong”, p.222, Random House

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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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  Two, Alcohol, Nicotine

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• As he rounded the corner, he saw two dozen men, naked to the waist, digging a hole thirty yards square at the side of the path. For a moment he was baffled. It seemed to have no agricultural purpose; there was no more planting or ploughing to be done. Then he realized what it was. They were digging a mass grave. He thought of shouting an order to about turn or at least to avert their eyes, but they were almost on it, and some of them had already seen their burial place. The songs died on their lips and the air was reclaimed by the birds.

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  Song, Eye, Men

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• 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.

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  Would Be, Hints, Fool

  "Dr John Briffa assesses Sebastian Faulks' shopping basket" by John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

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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... 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.

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  Believe, Fighting, Simple

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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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  Way, Used, Chosen

  FaceBook post by Sebastian Faulks from Dec 22, 2013

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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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  Thinking, Opposites, Cards

  FaceBook post by Sebastian Faulks from Jun 24, 2013

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• Busy is good, isn't it? Busy means we're hard at it, achieving our ends or "goals." Haven't had time to stop, or look around or think. That's considered the sign of a life well lived ... Suppose, though, you're not sure that what you're doing is at all worthwhile. Suppose you blundered into it over a spoonful of lime pickle. It's easy, it pays quite well. But really it's a distraction. It stops you thinking about what you ought to be doing.

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  Mean, Thinking, Goal

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• You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.

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  Names, Worn, Recalls

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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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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  Thinking, Smell, Want

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

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  Pain, Difficulty, Opium

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?

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  Drug, Insane

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if they may never be clear to me while I am alive

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  Believe, Alive, May

  Sebastian Faulks (2010). “Birdsong”, p.53, Random House

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• The men loved jokes, though they had heard each one before. Jack's manner was persuasive; few of them had seen the old stories so well delivered. Jack himeself laughed a little, but he was able to see the effect his performance had on his audience. The noise of their laughter roared like the sea in his ears. He wanted it louder and louder; he wanted them to drown out the war with their laughter. If the could should loud enough, they might bring the world back to its senses; they might laugh loud enough to raise the dead.

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  Laughter, War, Men

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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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  Fear, Loss, Shots

  FaceBook post by Sebastian Faulks from Apr 12, 2012

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• I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be

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  Years, May, Months

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• . . . she read with undifferentiated glee . . .

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  Glee

  Sebastian Faulks (2011). “A Week in December”, p.3, Random House

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• Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.

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  Depression, Years, Black

  Sebastian Faulks (2000). “Charlotte Gray: A Novel”, Vintage

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• I have written millions of words about contemporary England - in journalism. Why don't I take it as the background for a novel? I may do one day. But the simple answer is that it does not excite the novelistic part of my brain; it does not fire it up.

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  Simple, Fire, Brain

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

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  Fighting, Past, Rushing

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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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  Feelings, Alive, Inexplicable

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.

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  Stills

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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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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  Dying, Doe, Relief

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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

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  Moments, Killing, Killing Myself

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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