"The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful……" — Julian Barnes
"The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship."
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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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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 Companionship Quotes
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
— Henry Adams
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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of…
— Octavia Butler
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
— Lord Byron
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There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.
— Francesca Annis
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Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness…
— Grantland Rice
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Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
— Bill Gates
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...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the…
— Jack Kerouac
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To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion.
— Rita Hayworth
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We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will…
— Sherry Turkle
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the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
— Hosea Ballou
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When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
— Lew Wallace
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