Psychology Quotes by Julian Barnes

10 Psychology quotes by Julian Barnes

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Julian Barnes’s prose often wanders through memory and perception, and this ten‑item set narrows that wander to the mechanics of the mind. Each quote is a compact vignette, inviting readers to linger on a single, well‑crafted insight.

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“And mental states may be inferred from actions. The tyrant rarely sends a handwritten note requesting the elimination of an enemy.”

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The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

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Did you know that there is no exact rhyme in the Russian language for the word 'pravda'? Ponder and weigh this insufficiency…

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“my desire to ascribe responsibility might be more a reflection of my own cast of mind than a fair analysis of what…

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“A facetious if logical question comes into George's mind, from where he cannot tell, unless as a reaction to all this unwonted…

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“I didn't doubt for a moment that she had read them all, or that they were the right books to own. Further,…

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He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of…

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“Studies of cancer patients show that attitudes of mind have very little effect on clinical outcome. We may say we are fighting…

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But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get…

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“I remember a period in late adolescence when my mind would make itself drunk with images of adventurousness. This is how it…

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“I settled into a contented routine of working, spending my free time with Veronica and, back in my student room, wanking explosively to fantasies…

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The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

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“There is only good vodka and very good vodka—there is no such thing as bad vodka.”

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Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.

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How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves.…

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You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon…

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“Also, when you are young, you think you can predict the likely pains and bleaknesses that age might bring. You imagine yourself being lonely,…

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“Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island,…

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“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…

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