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The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

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Julian Barnes
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 19
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Translator
Writer
Leicester
England
J. Barnes
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Edward Pygge
Julian Patrick Barnes
Embarrassment
Breakfast
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But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.
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If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.
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Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
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I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.
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But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business.
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Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.
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Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.
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The more you learn, the less you fear.
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But that’s one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time.
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Nature is so exact, it hurts exactly as much as it is worth, so in a way one relishes the pain. If it didn't matter, it wouldn't matter.
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How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal how dark the sky how big the waves. We are all lost at sea, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us.
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In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.
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