"I had wanted life not to bother me……" — Julian Barnes
"I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was."
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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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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility…
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There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes…
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I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to…
— Robert Benchley
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I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile,…
— Sade Adu
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I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the…
— Usain Bolt
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There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
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It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm…
— Elayne Boosler
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School was great. There were no boys there, which didn't really bother me at the time because I had two…
— Jo Brand
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People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling…
— Octavia Butler
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In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner…
— Helena Christensen
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