"In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously……" — Julian Barnes
"In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence."
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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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More Britain Quotes
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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster…
— David Attenborough
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I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the…
— Jose Manuel Barroso
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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
— Tony Benn
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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we,…
— Tony Blair
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Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
— Tony Blair
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But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the…
— Tony Blair
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Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new…
— Tony Blair
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain,…
— Bono
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I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
— David Bowie
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The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers…
— Bill Bryson
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Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of…
— Bill Bryson
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Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's…
— Julie Burchill
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