Best Julian Barnes Sayings
- Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader. Absent
- The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable. Book
- There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were. Bad
- To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock. Afar
- Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting. Based
- Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction. Fiction
- Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same… Depends
- Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and… Been
- What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or… Best
- His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not cut out for… Acceptable
- WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius. Century
- And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love,… All
- Did you know that there is no exact rhyme in the Russian language for the word 'pravda'? Ponder and weigh this insufficiency in your mind.… Canyons
- If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated,… Become Complicated
- Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary. Essential
- If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form… Englishmen
- One of the troubles is this: the heart isn't heart-shaped. Heart
- Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn’t open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But at least you’ve… Distinction
- Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice. Anymore
- We live, we die, we are remembered, we are forgotten. Die
- You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch… Called
- When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the… Admitting
- Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all. All
- [Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of… Advance
- A pier is a disappointed bridge. Bridge
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