“And what percentage of people take up the option to die off?’ She looked at me, her glance telling me to be… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“In the letter he left for the coroner he had explained his reasoning (for suicide): that life is a gift bestowed without… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication? — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“We muddle along, we let life happen to us, we gradually build up a store of memories. There is the question of… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Life was the cat that dragged the parrot downstairs by its tail; his head banged against every step.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does:otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Memory is identity. I have believed this since – oh, since I can remember. You are what you have done; what you… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“There is the question of accumulation (...) just the simple adding up and adding on of life. And as the poet pointed… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Most of us have only one story to tell. I don’t mean that only one thing happens to us in our lives:… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Better to take life seriously, and reach for light solutions. Satire, for instance; or suicide. Why did people hold so fast to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“For most of us, the first experience of love, even if it doesn't work out-perhaps especially when it doesn't work out-promises that… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Mariac tells us about the books he's read, the painters he's liked, the plays he's seen. He finds himself by looking in… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at the time,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I settled into a contented routine of working, spending my free time with Veronica and, back in my student room, wanking explosively to fantasies… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“There is only good vodka and very good vodka—there is no such thing as bad vodka.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Also, when you are young, you think you can predict the likely pains and bleaknesses that age might bring. You imagine yourself being lonely,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods--the long-distance phone… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“My train was late, slowed by the usual Sunday engineering work. I got home in the early evening. I remember that I had a… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
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