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World Quotes by Julian Barnes
- Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.
- You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not. They may crash and burn,…
- Early in life, the world divides crudely into those who have had sex and those who haven't. Later, into those who have known love, and…
- When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world
- If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form…
- 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.…
- 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…
- Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred…
- 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…
- You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...
- You lose the world for a glance? Of course you do. That is what the world is for: to lose under the right circunstances.
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach