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Michel Faber quotes: They both sat in silence for the rest of the journey, as if conscious of having let each other down. They both sat in silence for the rest of the journey, as if conscious of having let each other down.
Michel Faber quotes: I get increasingly respectful of people who have faith and increasingly creeped out by them. I get increasingly respectful of people who have faith and increasingly creeped out by them.
Michel Faber quotes: Men! Armchair heroes the lot of them, while women were sent out to do the dirty work. Men! Armchair heroes the lot of them, while women were sent out to do the dirty work.
Michel Faber quotes: God damn God and all His horrible filthy Creation. God damn God and all His horrible filthy Creation.
Michel Faber quotes: Isn't Heaven reward enough, without needing to see the damned punished? Isn't Heaven reward enough, without needing to see the damned punished?
Michel Faber quotes: In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens. In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.
Michel Faber quotes: When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are 'procedures in place.' When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are 'procedures in place.'
Michel Faber quotes: The word troubled her, though. 'Indispensable.' It was a word people tended to resort to when dispensability was in the air. The word troubled her, though. 'Indispensable.' It was a word people tended to resort to when dispensability was in the air.
Michel Faber quotes: Most true things are kind of corny, don't you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment. Most true things are kind of corny, don't you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.
Michel Faber quotes: A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny. A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.
Michel Faber quotes: She and they were all the same under the skin, weren't they? She and they were all the same under the skin, weren't they?
Michel Faber quotes: Unreality was swirling all around her like the delirious miasmas Unreality was swirling all around her like the delirious miasmas
Michel Faber quotes: Shared suffering, she'd found, was no guarantee of intimacy. Shared suffering, she'd found, was no guarantee of intimacy.
Michel Faber quotes: A simple fuck is one thing, but let a man sleep with you just once and he thinks he can bring his dog and his pigeons. A simple fuck is one thing, but let a man sleep with you just once and he thinks he can bring his dog and his pigeons.
Michel Faber quotes: I'm still tremendously proud of 'Crimson Petal.' I'm still very emotionally involved with these characters. I still care about them. I'm still tremendously proud of 'Crimson Petal.' I'm still very emotionally involved with these characters. I still care about them.
Michel Faber quotes: I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people. I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.
Michel Faber quotes: What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax. What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.
Michel Faber quotes: The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory. The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.
Michel Faber quotes: I'm a loner and always have been. I'm a loner and always have been.
Michel Faber quotes: It was already tomorrow. She should have known from the beginning that it would end like this. It was already tomorrow. She should have known from the beginning that it would end like this.
Michel Faber quotes: Forgive me, Lord, for the smallness and selfishness of my mind. Amen. Forgive me, Lord, for the smallness and selfishness of my mind. Amen.
Michel Faber quotes: Coincidences like that served as a reminder that, variations in pigment aside, humans were all part of the same species. Coincidences like that served as a reminder that, variations in pigment aside, humans were all part of the same species.
Michel Faber quotes: There is so little in the New Testament about sexual love, and most of it consists of Paul heaving a deep sigh and tolerating it like a weakness. There is so little in the New Testament about sexual love, and most of it consists of Paul heaving a deep sigh and tolerating it like a weakness.
Michel Faber quotes: Could indicate the cocky self-awareness of a male in prime condition. Could indicate the cocky self-awareness of a male in prime condition.
Michel Faber quotes: All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve. All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.
Michel Faber quotes: Because human beings suffer so much more than ducks.""You might not think so if you were a duck. Because human beings suffer so much more than ducks."
"You might not think so if you were a duck.
Michel Faber quotes: Sunlight is bad,' he wheezes. 'It's the exact same stuff as breeds maggots in wounded soldiers' legs. And when there's no war on, it fades wallpaper. Sunlight is bad,' he wheezes. 'It's the exact same stuff as breeds maggots in wounded soldiers' legs. And when there's no war on, it fades wallpaper.
Michel Faber quotes: Can't you see that? Everybody's sentimental, everybody. Can't you see that? Everybody's sentimental, everybody.
Michel Faber quotes: Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty. Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.
Michel Faber quotes: History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women. History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.
Michel Faber quotes: Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them. Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.
Michel Faber quotes: a child's disquiet is as potent as a damp fart. a child's disquiet is as potent as a damp fart.
Michel Faber quotes: Nothing happened, and time stubbornly refused to pass. Nothing happened, and time stubbornly refused to pass.
Michel Faber quotes: Vess Incorporated had simply dug them out of one hole and buried them in another Vess Incorporated had simply dug them out of one hole and buried them in another
Michel Faber quotes: We're moving towards such a strange time.A time when all our moral choices will be complicated and compromised by our love of progress We're moving towards such a strange time.A time when all our moral choices will be complicated and compromised by our love of progress
Michel Faber quotes: Only the other day, Robbie had gone to a terrible disco in Alness, hoping it would transform his life in some way. Only the other day, Robbie had gone to a terrible disco in Alness, hoping it would transform his life in some way.
Michel Faber quotes: I wouldn't use the word 'man'. The Hebrew is ha-adam, which I would argue encompasses both sexes. I wouldn't use the word 'man'. The Hebrew is ha-adam, which I would argue encompasses both sexes.
Michel Faber quotes: God preserve us from fuddle-headed young men who want money for building cloud-castles! God preserve us from fuddle-headed young men who want money for building cloud-castles!
Michel Faber quotes: Never too late for vocabulary building, he said. Never too late for vocabulary building, he said.
Michel Faber quotes: If someone's a cartoon villain, you can dismiss them, but if they behave despicably but you kind of like them, they really get under your skin. If someone's a cartoon villain, you can dismiss them, but if they behave despicably but you kind of like them, they really get under your skin.
Michel Faber quotes: You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed. You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.
Michel Faber quotes: Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job. Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job.
Michel Faber quotes: Wrinkles of the future, cicatrices of the past, all the million marks recording a private life that no outsider could ever understand. Wrinkles of the future, cicatrices of the past, all the million marks recording a private life that no outsider could ever understand.
Michel Faber quotes: MERCY. It was a word she'd rarely encountered MERCY. It was a word she'd rarely encountered
Michel Faber quotes: If she were its leader. Not that she ever would be: she was born to be a dissenter within a larger certainty, she knows that. If she were its leader. Not that she ever would be: she was born to be a dissenter within a larger certainty, she knows that.
Michel Faber quotes: On an average day, I spend 12 hours listening to music. Very little writing. On an average day, I spend 12 hours listening to music. Very little writing.
Michel Faber quotes: Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth. Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.
Michel Faber quotes: Their consciousness was rudimentary. Their consciousness was rudimentary.
Michel Faber quotes: Belief was a place that people didn't leave until they absolutely must. Belief was a place that people didn't leave until they absolutely must.
Michel Faber quotes: In all of my work, I think I'm exploring the idea that we are aliens to each other, how there is a huge distance that separates us all. In all of my work, I think I'm exploring the idea that we are aliens to each other, how there is a huge distance that separates us all.
Michel Faber quotes: Protective of his gleaming domain, beavering away in it alone like an obsessed scientist in a humid and luridly lit laboratory. Protective of his gleaming domain, beavering away in it alone like an obsessed scientist in a humid and luridly lit laboratory.
Michel Faber quotes: There was a red button on the wall labelled EMERGENCY, but no button labelled BEWILDERMENT. There was a red button on the wall labelled EMERGENCY, but no button labelled BEWILDERMENT.
Michel Faber quotes: Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude. Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude.
Michel Faber quotes: For years, I was quite a militant atheist. I wanted to burn down all the churches or turn them into second-hand record emporiums. For years, I was quite a militant atheist. I wanted to burn down all the churches or turn them into second-hand record emporiums.
Michel Faber quotes: Was it always the desirable ones that sat in silence, and the misshapen rejects that prattled away unprompted? Was it always the desirable ones that sat in silence, and the misshapen rejects that prattled away unprompted?
Michel Faber quotes: Oh how she wondered, what she looked like to him, in his alien innocence. Oh how she wondered, what she looked like to him, in his alien innocence.
Michel Faber quotes: Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it. Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.
Michel Faber quotes: I think I have written the things I was put on Earth to write. I think I have written the things I was put on Earth to write.
Michel Faber quotes: reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude. Of reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude. Of
Michel Faber quotes: Why, the top-notch gentleman visits his hatter every few days just to have his hat ironed! Why, the top-notch gentleman visits his hatter every few days just to have his hat ironed!
Michel Faber quotes: Isserley walked along the path the generations of sheep-flocks had made, up the tiers of the hill. In her mind, she was already Isserley walked along the path the generations of sheep-flocks had made, up the tiers of the hill. In her mind, she was already
Michel Faber quotes: In every Christian's life there comes a time when he or she needs to know the precise circumstances under which God is willing to heal the sick. In every Christian's life there comes a time when he or she needs to know the precise circumstances under which God is willing to heal the sick.
Michel Faber quotes: Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable. Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable.
Michel Faber quotes: It was such an infantile prayer, the sort of prayer a five-year-old might pray. But maybe those were the best kind. It was such an infantile prayer, the sort of prayer a five-year-old might pray. But maybe those were the best kind.
Michel Faber quotes: I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly. I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.
Michel Faber quotes: Because I must do something while I still can. Each soul is still incalculably precious. Because I must do something while I still can. Each soul is still incalculably precious.
Michel Faber quotes: Their wealth makes them like a different creature, an exotic thing that doesn't have to function like a human. Their wealth makes them like a different creature, an exotic thing that doesn't have to function like a human.
Michel Faber quotes: Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required. Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required.
Michel Faber quotes: These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does. These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.
Michel Faber quotes: Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events
Michel Faber quotes: I was disinclined to have the status of a writer. I was disinclined to have the status of a writer.
Michel Faber quotes: Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist. Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.
Michel Faber quotes: [ ... ] how can one sleep while dancing at the edge of waves? [ ... ] how can one sleep while dancing at the edge of waves?
Michel Faber quotes: One of the things my success as an author has forced me to face is how dysfunctional ... Maybe that's a strong word, but how obsessive I am. One of the things my success as an author has forced me to face is how dysfunctional ... Maybe that's a strong word, but how obsessive I am.
Michel Faber quotes: Grainger looked exasperated. "Why don't you just come straight out and use the word aliens?"Because we're the aliens here. Grainger looked exasperated. "Why don't you just come straight out and use the word aliens?
"Because we're the aliens here.
Michel Faber quotes: Needs could not bully her. Needs could not bully her.
Michel Faber quotes: The indiscriminate, eternal devotion of nature to its numberless particles had an emotional importance for Isserley; it put the The indiscriminate, eternal devotion of nature to its numberless particles had an emotional importance for Isserley; it put the
Michel Faber quotes: It's not a colony," another of the USIC interviewers said, with an edge to her voice. "It's a community. We do not use the word colony. It's not a colony," another of the USIC interviewers said, with an edge to her voice. "It's a community. We do not use the word colony.
Michel Faber quotes: This is a street where the weaker souls crawl into bed as soon as the sun sets and lie awake listening to the rats. This is a street where the weaker souls crawl into bed as soon as the sun sets and lie awake listening to the rats.
Michel Faber quotes: I sometimes think that the only things really worth talking about are the things people absolutely refuse to discuss. I sometimes think that the only things really worth talking about are the things people absolutely refuse to discuss.
Michel Faber quotes: I just wish," she said, "that this magnificent, stupendous God of yours could give a fuck. I just wish," she said, "that this magnificent, stupendous God of yours could give a fuck.
Michel Faber quotes: Away, and she could carry a bag on each arm, providing Away, and she could carry a bag on each arm, providing
Michel Faber quotes: She holds her head as high as if she were beautiful, and holds her body as if she were strong. She holds her head as high as if she were beautiful, and holds her body as if she were strong.
Michel Faber quotes: When the person you love has cancer, they are, in a sense, living on Planet Cancer. They are in a place where you are not. And you can't follow them. When the person you love has cancer, they are, in a sense, living on Planet Cancer. They are in a place where you are not. And you can't follow them.
Michel Faber quotes: It was a husk, no longer truly their mother - more like their mother's most treasured possession, which had been given to them as a parting gift. It was a husk, no longer truly their mother - more like their mother's most treasured possession, which had been given to them as a parting gift.
Michel Faber quotes: I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship. I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship.
Michel Faber quotes: That was the sort of thing crazy people did - instinctively choosing the experiences that confirmed their own negative attitudes. That was the sort of thing crazy people did - instinctively choosing the experiences that confirmed their own negative attitudes.
Michel Faber quotes: She talks about being a Christian as if it's a gym membership you can sign up for. She talks about being a Christian as if it's a gym membership you can sign up for.
Michel Faber quotes: What do his ambitions matter, if those are her collar-bones? What do his ambitions matter, if those are her collar-bones?
Michel Faber quotes: I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed. I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.

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