"Irony ... may be defined as what people…" — Julian Barnes
"Irony ... may be defined as what people miss."
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184 Quotes by Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes has 184 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books…
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how…
— Albert Bandura
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Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers…
— Dave Barry
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It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
— Dave Barry
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I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning.…
— Scott Adams
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate…
— David Bohm
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
— Edward de Bono
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The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims…
— John O. Brennan
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Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
— David Byrne
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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
— Italo Calvino
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