"To own a certain book - and to……" — Julian Barnes

"To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself."

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184 Quotes by Julian Barnes

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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…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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