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Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined b...

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Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job.

The Book of Strange New Things

You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.

The Book of Strange New Things

A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and disca...

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The Crimson Petal and the White

The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future ...

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Under the Skin

These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.

The Book of Strange New Things

How’s things, man?” The black man extended his hand for a handshake. Mathematical formulae were jott...

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The Book of Strange New Things

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next ...

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The Book of Strange New Things

Some people go through the heavy stuff. They fight in wars. They're in jail. They start a business a...

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The Book of Strange New Things

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

The Book of Strange New Things

But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a mome...

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The Crimson Petal and the White

A person who is worth nothing must introduce you to a person worth next-to-nothing, and that person ...

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The Crimson Petal and the White

Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed,...

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The Book of Strange New Things

People and their dwellings were such a thin dust on the surface of the globe, like invisible specks ...

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The Book of Strange New Things

There were no oceans on Oasis, no large bodies of water, and presumably no fish. He wondered whether...

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The Book of Strange New Things

'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pudding is ...

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Well, here we are."Sometimes a statement of the bloody obvious was the only appropriate way forward....

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There is so little in the New Testament about sexual love, and most of it consists of Paul heaving a...

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Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of shee...

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Michel Faber

Writer

Born: 1960-04-13

Died: N/A

Michel Faber (born 13 April 1960) is an Australian fiction writer.More