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This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use back then it was a 'broken home'.
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Julian Barnes
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 19
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I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!
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I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.
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The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.
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You can put it another way, of course you always can.
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Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?
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The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.
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Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various times the European centre of power, of civilisation, of the arts, and (self-advertisingly, at least) of love.
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Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say that you love humanity? Are you sure you aren’t treating yourself to easy self-congratulation, seeking approval, making certain you’re on the right side?
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But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business.
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One of the troubles is this: the heart isn't heart-shaped.
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we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death
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Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.
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If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form a proper queue?
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I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.
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We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, can't grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have with history--even our own small, personal, largely undocumented piece of it?
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Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.
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All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.
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If you’re that clever you can argue yourself into anything.
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Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary.
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History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.
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