"I thought of the things that had happened……" — Julian Barnes
"I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen."
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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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'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.
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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
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Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual…
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You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
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