"A pier is a disappointed bridge." — Julian Barnes
"A pier is a disappointed bridge."
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Julian Barnes
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184 Quotes by Julian Barnes
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The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
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What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but…
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When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
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Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.
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Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.
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When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen:…
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Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.
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This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is…
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You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not.…
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There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic…
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Why should anything happen when everything has happened?
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As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the…
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We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead…
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In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay…
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I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor…
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Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.
— Cher
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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in…
— George H. W. Bush
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The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but…
— George Carlin
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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans - liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal - the…
— George W. Bush
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Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous…
— Dennis Conner
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If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge…
— Frantz Fanon
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Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever…
— Bill Gates
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My wife made me join a bridge club... I jump off next Tuesday.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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