Julian Barnes Quotes

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"Love is just a system for getting someone to call you Darling after sex." #TalkingItOver

[The Reading List @readinglist_]

Three things you may not know about Julian Barnes …
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"History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us." #AHistoryoftheWorldinTenandahalfChapters

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"Being intelligent was like being good: you could be virtuous in one person's company and yet wicked in another's. You could be intelligent with one person and stupid with another." #StaringattheSun

[Open Magazine @Openthemag]

The last sigh of the absolute lover: An ageing memoirist returns to the saddest of love stories in #TheOnlyStory, the new novel by #JulianBarnes, writes @prasannara; @JonathanCape https://t.co/vUqy7rh7Yn

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"The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously." #FlaubertsParrot

[Guardian Books @GuardianBooks]

Julian Barnes: ‘Flaubert could have written a great novel about contemporary America’ https://t.co/9cRyNKH8ET

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"Every morning, at breakfast, I would gaze disbelievingly at my family. They were all still there, for a start – that was the first surprise. Why hadn't some of them run off in the night, wounded beyond endurance by the emptiness I divined in their lives?" #Metroland

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"Death can't be talked down, or parlayed into anything; it simply declines to come to the negotiating table." #NothingToBeFrightenedOf

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"Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be." #TheSenseOfAnEnding

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"My brother distrusts the essential truth of memories; I distrust the way we colour them in. We each have our own cheap, mail-order paintbox, and our favourite hues." #NothingToBeFrightenedOf

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""I shall come back tomorrow,' replied Fred Burnaby, giving her a farewell of his own devising: a military self-dismissal combined with a bohemian's eager promise to return." #LevelsofLife

[Waterstones @Waterstones]

One of fiction's greatest mappers of the human heart, Julian Barnes, returns this February with a deeply moving new novel that asks a soul-searching question: would you rather love the more, and suffer the more, or love the less, and suffer the less? https://t.co/RrZBDyKAL4

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"...Unless it was that her younger self had failed by not predicting the priorities of age." (2/2) #EnglandEngland

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"She had failed her younger self by losing the priorities of youth..." (1/2) #EnglandEngland

[E O Higgins @eohiggins]

Rather nice.

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"...but have never wanted not to be myself and more, never desired oblivion " (2 of 2) #NothingToBeFrightenedOf

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"I am certainly melancholic myself, and sometimes find life an overrated way of passing the time..." (1 of 2)

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"We are bad at dealing with death, that banal, unique thing; we can no longer make it part of a wider pattern" #LevelsofLife

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"We live in time - it holds us and moulds us - but I've never felt I understood it very well" #TheSenseofanEnding