Best Julian Barnes Thoughts
- ...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life… Act
- He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas… Acted
- We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we… Avoiding
- ..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information. Book
- Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Art
- There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a… Fascinate
- When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different… Book
- To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself. Book
- In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the… Advantage
- Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure. Accumulation
- You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that… Allowed
- May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby. Baby
- Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve?… All
- Whisky, I find, helps clarity of thought. And reduces pain. It has the additional virtue of making you drunk or, if taken in sufficient quantity,… Additional
- Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where… Bored
- Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value… Enjoy
- When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't… Age
- The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship. Companionship
- When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life… Aim
- Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human and… Approve
- You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon to… Attempt
- Nature is so exact, it hurts exactly as much as it is worth, so in a way one relishes the pain, I think. If it… Exact
- You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed... Been
- We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the… Across
- Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning. Ballooning
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