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Between Quotes by Julian Barnes
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder.…
- It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves;…
- In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In…
- Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve?…
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