Best Julian Barnes Quotations
- Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say that you love humanity? Are you sure… Approval
- The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else. Best
- What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps,… Admire
- The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. Behaving
- The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly. Clearly
- The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can. Best
- If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that. Inspirational
- Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to… According
- Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance. Arrogance
- He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself. Course
- He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women… Adult
- Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity. Devil
- (on grief) And you do come out of it, that’s true. After a year, after five. But you don’t come out of it like a… Bursting
- Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but… Age
- Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional… All
- When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret.… Applaud
- Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found… Act
- Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars… Appear
- I don't believe in God, but I miss him. Believe
- How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We… All
- The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic. Aesthetic
- Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions. Answer
- It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them. All
- When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator:… Complete
- The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may… Better
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