Sometimes Quotes by Julian Barnes

10 Sometimes quotes by Julian Barnes

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For a brief taste of Barnes’s literary subtlety, this selection zeroes in on his take on the occasional. The prose is crisp, inviting you to linger a moment on each thoughtful turn.

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In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements…

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In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.

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Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however…

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“Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is…

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You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not. They may…

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Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn’t open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But…

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“The imagination doesn’t crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever’s there: sometimes too much, sometimes too…

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We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as…

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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…

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“Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does:otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I…

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

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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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