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Story Quotes by Julian Barnes
- In life, every ending is just the start of another story.
- It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead.…
- Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to…
- 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…
- How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the…
- Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder.…
- We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the…
- Every love story is a potential grief story.
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- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster
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