Michel Faber famous quotes

03-28-2025

Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.
-- 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

#Life #Destiny #Soul
And you know what people immediately start looking for, five minutes after they arrive someplace new? You know what's on their minds? I'll tell you: How are they gonna get laid, and where are they gonna find some mind-altering substances.
-- Michel Faber

#People #Mind #Substance
Clothes are nothing more than a fig leaf. And the bodies beneath are just another layer of clothing, an outfit of flesh with an impractically thin leather exterior, in various shades of pink, yellow and brown. The souls alone are real. Seen in this way, there can never be any such thing as social unease or shyness or embarrassment. All you need do is greet your fellow soul.
-- Michel Faber

#Real #Yellow #Clothes
You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.
-- Michel Faber

#War #Blood #Envy
Most true things are kind of corny, donâ€™t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.
-- Michel Faber

#Thinking #Kind #Corny
Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.
-- Michel Faber

#Needs #Steps #Watches
Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.
-- Michel Faber

#Danger #Allure #Threat
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

#Memories #Eye #Next
Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.
-- Michel Faber

#Mad #Reassurance
History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.
-- Michel Faber

#Way #Dresses #Strange
Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events
-- Michel Faber

#Events #Life Is #Newspapers
Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his characters or harbours any illusions about the creative process. But at the same time, I think it's juvenile and arrogant when literary writers compulsively remind their readers that the characters aren't real. People know that already. The challenge is to make an intelligent reader suspend disbelief, to seduce them into the reality of a narrative.
-- Michel Faber

#Real #Writing #Character
But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes advantage of His inattention to grant an illicit mercy. God...is an Anglican, whereas Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anything, except that if They divorce, the Devil will leap gleefully into the breach.
-- Michel Faber

#Divorce #Eye #Two
I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.
-- Michel Faber

#Fall #Fallen

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