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First 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,…
- Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps,…
- Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.
- In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the…
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