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Inspirational Quotes by Julian Barnes
- The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
- What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.
- Why should anything happen when everything has happened?
- I dreamt that I woke up. It's the oldest dream of all, and I've just had it
- History is the lies of the victors,
- The more you learn, the less you fear.
- Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.
- But that’s one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time.
- In life, every ending is just the start of another story.
- I'm a complete democrat in terms of who buys my books.
- There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.
- Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.
- Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary.
- One of the troubles is this: the heart isn't heart-shaped.
- Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.
- We live, we die, we are remembered, we are forgotten.
- The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.
- The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.
- The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.
- If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.
- He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.
- Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.
- I’ve always thought you are what you are and you shouldn’t pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that…
- History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.
- But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento