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Less Quotes by Julian Barnes
- Those were the days in this country where H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and Conan Doyle could have influence, and thats gone, thats true. But…
- The more you learn, the less you fear.
- Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.
- Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional…
- The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may…
- 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…
- The next day, when I was sober, I thought again about the three of us, and about time's many paradoxes. For instance: that when we…
- The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.
- 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…
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- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
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- A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is… — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. — Jane Austen
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