Remember Quotes by Julian Barnes

10 Remember quotes by Julian Barnes

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Julian Barnes’s take on memory is concise and layered, offering a literary perspective that feels both intellectual and intimate. This brief collection gives a clear taste of his narrative voice.

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“My name is Stuart, and I remember everything.”

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What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

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Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable…

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Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act.…

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I remember laughing with relief that the same old adolescent boredom goes on from generation to generation. ...the words took me back…

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Memory is identity…You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you…

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If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that's what…

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When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense…

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What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was…

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“I remember, in no particular order: - a shiny inner wrist; - steam rising from a wet sink as a hot frying…

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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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