"When you are writing fiction your task is……" — Julian Barnes
"When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world"
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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 Complication Quotes
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It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was…
— Kate Beckinsale
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The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources,…
— Winston Churchill
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Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies…
— Edward Tufte
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Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that…
— Carl Jung
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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.
— George Earle Buckle
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The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money
— Nicholas von Hoffman
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Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It…
— Navi Pillay
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Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them…
— Edith Wharton
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I'm not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend…
— Taylor Swift
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If someone wants to give me the lead in anyone of those films, and deal with those other complications, terrific,…
— Joe Morton
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For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy…
— Unknown Author
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