"It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened."

--

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

Sebastian Faulks

“No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless.”
“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
“I think most folks are good folks.”
“The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.”

Source : Waverley Root (1996). “Food”, William S. Konecky Associates
“Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?”
“I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here.'”
“For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.”
“The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.”

Source : "Worlds apart" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2006.

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