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Seem Quotes by Julian Barnes
- Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets seem able to…
- Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.
- 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…
- 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…
- You would think, wouldn’t you, that if you were the child of a happy marriage, then you ought to have a better than average marriage…
- Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve?…
- He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would…
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