"Do we tend to recall the most important……" — Julian Barnes
"Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?"
—
Julian Barnes
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
184 Quotes by Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes has 184 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
-
What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but…
-
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
-
Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.
-
Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.
-
When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen:…
-
Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.
-
This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is…
-
You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not.…
-
There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic…
-
Why should anything happen when everything has happened?
-
As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the…
See all 184 quotes by Julian Barnes »
More Directly Quotes
This quote is filed under Directly Quotes,
one of 1,259 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself…
— Paul Auster
-
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can…
— Abigail Adams
-
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
— Joseph Addison
-
A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is…
— John Berger
-
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to…
— Ingmar Bergman
-
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to…
— Wendell Berry
-
Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
— Jeff Bezos
-
The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but…
— Conrad Black
-
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in…
— Christopher Bond
-
Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my…
— Johannes Brahms
-
When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer…
— Jerry Brown
-
January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
— Michael Caine
See all 1,259 Directly Quotes »