"Do not imagine that Art is something which……" — Julian Barnes
"Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence . Art is not a brassiere. At least, not in the English sense. But do not forget that brassiere is the French word for life-jacket."
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184 Quotes by Julian Barnes
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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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Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.
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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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Why should anything happen when everything has happened?
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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