“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at… — 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
“And what percentage of people take up the option to die off?’ She looked at me, her glance telling me to be… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The next day, when I was sober, I thought again about the three of us, and about time's many paradoxes. For instance:… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does:otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“For some people, the time differentials established in youth never really disappear: the elder remains the elder, even when both are dribbling… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that's what… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“you find yourself repeating, ‘They grow up so quickly, don’t they?’ when all you really mean is: time goes faster for me… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“And does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce?No, that’s too grand, too considered a process.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Back in 'my day' – though I didn't claim ownership of it at the time, this is what used to happen: you… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“But the moment I realized that Pomiane was not just sympathetic but deeply on my side came in his recipe for Bœuf… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Someone once said that his favourite times in history were when things were collapsing, because that meant something new was being born.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Is any novelist going to recognize the moment when he or she has nothing more to say? It is a brave thing… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I didn't doubt for a moment that she had read them all, or that they were the right books to own. Further,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“The past is something we can neither hold on to nor move entirely beyond.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“The past is a distant, receding coastline, and we are all in the same boat. Along the stern rail there is a… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I remember a period in late adolescence when my mind would make itself drunk with images of adventurousness. This is how it… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A… — 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
