--- title: "1 Man Looked Quotes By Pat Barker" description: "1 Man Looked quotes by Pat Barker. Plus more from Pat Barker and more Man Looked sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54b/pat-barker-12512_fear_a-flicker-of-fear-but-it-faded-the-man-l_3031300.jpg" --- > [“A flicker of fear, but it faded. The man looked round the room again, as if searching for something, but for something inside himself, Colin thought. For something he ought to feel, and couldn't.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-barker/a-flicker-of-fear-but-it-faded-the-man-looked-round-the-room-again-as/) [Pat Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-barker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54b/pat-barker-12512_fear_a-flicker-of-fear-but-it-faded-the-man-l_3031300.jpg) ## More by Pat Barker > [“But I shot the dog myself. I took him into the barn holding on to his collar. He knew something bad was going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-barker/but-i-shot-the-dog-myself-i-took-him-into-the-barn-holding-on-to-his/) [Pat Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-barker/) > [When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-barker/when-i-m-writing-the-first-draft-i-m-writing-in-a-very-slovenly-way/) [Pat Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-barker/) > [When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-barker/when-writing-about-historical-characters-i-try-to-be-as-accurate-as/) [Pat Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-barker/) > [That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-barker/that-balance-between-involvement-and-detachment-is-what-novelists-do/) [Pat Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-barker/) > [Murder is only killing in the wrong place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-barker/murder-is-only-killing-in-the-wrong-place/) [Pat Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-barker/) > [The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right place. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-barker/the-sky-darkened-the-air-grew-colder-but-he-didn-t-mind-it-didn-t/) [Pat Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-barker/) > ['Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-barker/undertones-of-war-by-edmund-blunden-seems-to-get-less-attention-than/) [Pat Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-barker/) > [I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-barker/i-don-t-think-it-s-possible-to-c-call-yourself-a-c-christian-and-and/) [Pat Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-barker/) > [The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-barker/the-way-i-see-it-when-you-put-the-uniform-on-in-effect-you-sign-a/) [Pat Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-barker/) > [“Half the world's work's done by hopeless neurotics.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-barker/half-the-world-s-work-s-done-by-hopeless-neurotics/) [Pat Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-barker/) > [Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-barker/culturally-the-first-world-war-is-the-war-that-stands-in-for-other/) [Pat Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-barker/) > [Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-barker/fiction-should-be-about-moral-dilemmas-that-are-so-bloody-difficult/) [Pat Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-barker/) > [My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-barker/my-grandmother-s-first-husband-was-a-spiritualist-medium-what/) [Pat Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-barker/) > [“It was... the Great White God de-throned, I suppose. Because we did, we quite unselfconsciously assumed we were the measure of all things. That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-barker/it-was-the-great-white-god-de-throned-i-suppose-because-we-did-we/) [Pat Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-barker/) > [Sometimes, in the trenches, you get the sense of something, ancient. One trench we held, it had skulls in the side, embedded, like mushrooms.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-barker/sometimes-in-the-trenches-you-get-the-sense-of-something-ancient-one/) [Pat Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-barker/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/man-looked/pat-barker/#itemlist", "name": "1 Man Looked Quotes By Pat Barker", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“A flicker of fear, but it faded. The man looked round the room again, as if searching for something, but for something inside himself, Colin thought. 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