"That's one of the central problems of history,……" — Julian Barnes
"That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us."
—
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 Central Quotes
This quote is filed under Central Quotes,
one of 1,135 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and…
— Karen Armstrong
-
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to…
— Mary Kay Ash
-
A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States,…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
-
Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important…
— Melissa Bean
-
Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
-
Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.
— Diane Abbott
-
Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate…
— Ben Bernanke
-
The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round…
— Wendell Berry
-
Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide…
— David Boies
-
The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
— Jorge Luis Borges
-
I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At…
— Geraldine Brooks
-
It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world…
— James Buchan
See all 1,135 Central Quotes »