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Been Quotes by Julian Barnes
- You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not. They may crash and burn,…
- 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…
- Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional…
- Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?
- And that's a life, isn't it? Some achievements and some disappointments. It's been interesting to me, though I wouldn't complain or be amazed if others…
- Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have…
- But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get soggy at the…
- And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is…
- The rainbow in place of the unicorn? Why didn't God just restore the unicorn? We animals would have been happier with that, instead of a…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour