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They both sat in silence for the rest of the journey, as if conscious of having let each other down.
— Michel Faber
I get increasingly respectful of people who have faith and increasingly creeped out by them.
— Michel Faber
Men! Armchair heroes the lot of them, while women were sent out to do the dirty work.
— Michel Faber
God damn God and all His horrible filthy Creation.
— Michel Faber
In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.
— Michel Faber
When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are 'procedures in place.'
— Michel Faber
The word troubled her, though. 'Indispensable.' It was a word people tended to resort to when dispensability was in the air.
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Most true things are kind of corny, don't you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.
— Michel Faber
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
She and they were all the same under the skin, weren't they?
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Shared suffering, she'd found, was no guarantee of intimacy.
— Michel Faber
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.
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I'm still tremendously proud of 'Crimson Petal.' I'm still very emotionally involved with these characters. I still care about them.
— Michel Faber
I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.
— Michel Faber
What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.
— Michel Faber
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
I'm a loner and always have been.
— Michel Faber
It was already tomorrow. She should have known from the beginning that it would end like this.
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Coincidences like that served as a reminder that, variations in pigment aside, humans were all part of the same species.
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Because human beings suffer so much more than ducks.""You might not think so if you were a duck. — Michel Faber
Can't you see that? Everybody's sentimental, everybody.
— Michel Faber
Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.
— Michel Faber
a child's disquiet is as potent as a damp fart.
— Michel Faber
Nothing happened, and time stubbornly refused to pass.
— Michel Faber
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
Only the other day, Robbie had gone to a terrible disco in Alness, hoping it would transform his life in some way.
— Michel Faber
I wouldn't use the word 'man'. The Hebrew is ha-adam, which I would argue encompasses both sexes.
— Michel Faber
God preserve us from fuddle-headed young men who want money for building cloud-castles!
— Michel Faber
Never too late for vocabulary building, he said.
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Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job.
— Michel Faber
Wrinkles of the future, cicatrices of the past, all the million marks recording a private life that no outsider could ever understand.
— Michel Faber
MERCY. It was a word she'd rarely encountered
— Michel Faber
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
Their consciousness was rudimentary.
— Michel Faber
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
Protective of his gleaming domain, beavering away in it alone like an obsessed scientist in a humid and luridly lit laboratory.
— Michel Faber
There was a red button on the wall labelled EMERGENCY, but no button labelled BEWILDERMENT.
— Michel Faber
Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude.
— Michel Faber
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
Was it always the desirable ones that sat in silence, and the misshapen rejects that prattled away unprompted?
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Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.
— Michel Faber
reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude. Of
— Michel Faber
Why, the top-notch gentleman visits his hatter every few days just to have his hat ironed!
— Michel Faber
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
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
I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.
— Michel Faber
Because I must do something while I still can. Each soul is still incalculably precious.
— Michel Faber
Their wealth makes them like a different creature, an exotic thing that doesn't have to function like a human.
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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
Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events
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I was disinclined to have the status of a writer.
— Michel Faber
Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.
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Grainger looked exasperated. "Why don't you just come straight out and use the word aliens?"Because we're the aliens here. — Michel Faber
Needs could not bully her.
— Michel Faber
The indiscriminate, eternal devotion of nature to its numberless particles had an emotional importance for Isserley; it put the
— Michel Faber
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
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
I sometimes think that the only things really worth talking about are the things people absolutely refuse to discuss.
— Michel Faber
I just wish," she said, "that this magnificent, stupendous God of yours could give a fuck.
— Michel Faber
Away, and she could carry a bag on each arm, providing
— Michel Faber
She holds her head as high as if she were beautiful, and holds her body as if she were strong.
— Michel Faber
I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship.
— Michel Faber
That was the sort of thing crazy people did - instinctively choosing the experiences that confirmed their own negative attitudes.
— Michel Faber
What do his ambitions matter, if those are her collar-bones?
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