Madame Bovary Quote by Julian Barnes

“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at the time,…

— Julian Barnes

“I settled into a contented routine of working, spending my free time with Veronica and, back in my student room, wanking explosively to fantasies…

— Julian Barnes

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

— Julian Barnes

“There is only good vodka and very good vodka—there is no such thing as bad vodka.”

— Julian Barnes

Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.

— Julian Barnes

How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves.…

— Julian Barnes

You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon…

— Julian Barnes

“Also, when you are young, you think you can predict the likely pains and bleaknesses that age might bring. You imagine yourself being lonely,…

— Julian Barnes

“Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island,…

— Julian Barnes

“In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods--the long-distance phone…

— Julian Barnes

“My train was late, slowed by the usual Sunday engineering work. I got home in the early evening. I remember that I had a…

— Julian Barnes

In life, every ending is just the start of another story.

— Julian Barnes