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Things Quotes by Julian Barnes
- Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.
- All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.
- 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…
- When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the…
- When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret.…
- Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars…
- When you're young - when I was young - you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want…
- Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm…
- I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.
- We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we…
- 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…
- You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...
- Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle