This date in 1953 was the birthdate of the writer Sebastian Faulks. 10 quotes from him:
The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.
It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.
If you have only one life, you cant altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?
You put your time where your priority is.
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.
One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.
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.
My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.
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.
A romantic is someone who believes that something is valuable even if it doesn't last. And a non-romantic is someone who says that if something doesn't endure, or can't be logically proved and pinned down, it's worthless.
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