“Indeed, isn’t the whole business of ascribing responsibility kind of a cop-out? We want to blame an individual so that everyone else… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Adrian's fragment also refers to the question of responsibility: whether there's a chain of it, or whether we draw the concept more… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“my desire to ascribe responsibility might be more a reflection of my own cast of mind than a fair analysis of what… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond these, there is unrest. There is great unrest.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“We want to blame an individual so that everyone else is exculpated. Or we blame a historical process as a way of… — 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
