"There's nothing wrong with being a genius who……" — Julian Barnes
"There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius."
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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 Fascinate Quotes
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I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human…
— Andrea Bocelli
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A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
— Isaac Asimov
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Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.
— Eddie Cantor
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Human beings are compelled to adopt a belief system; some paradigm to provide meaning, purpose, and understanding to our lives.…
— Terry Rossio
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My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality.
— Mike Tyson
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I've always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument - nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit.…
— John Bonham
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Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its…
— Alexander McQueen
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Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex.
— Alexander McQueen
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Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?
— Leonard Ravenhill
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I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.
— Paul Haggis
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They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But…
— Roland Joffe
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