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One Quotes by Julian Barnes
- But that’s one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time.
- Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various…
- Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol:…
- Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same…
- 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…
- WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.
- One of the troubles is this: the heart isn't heart-shaped.
- The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else.
- Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.
- He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't…
- I certainly believe we all suffer damage, one way or another. How could we not,except in a world of perfect parents, siblings, neighbours, companions? And…
- That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know…
- 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;…
- ...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life…
- 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…
- Nature is so exact, it hurts exactly as much as it is worth, so in a way one relishes the pain, I think. If it…
- 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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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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