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...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness
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Julian Barnes
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 19
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Leicester
England
J. Barnes
J Barnes
Edward Pygge
Julian Patrick Barnes
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The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
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The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.
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When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator: you don't have to have eaten it to know that it would make you throw up.
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Books are where things are explained to you life is where things aren't.
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Those were the days in this country where H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and Conan Doyle could have influence, and thats gone, thats true. But I dont think we have less influence in the hearts and minds of readers. I think, if anything, we have just as much, if not more.
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Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?
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To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.
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History is the lies of the victors.
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Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.
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The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.
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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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Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.
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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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In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.
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If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that's what caused me to be like this, it's not my fault. Permit me to correct you: it probably is your fault. And kindly spare me the details.
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The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else.
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Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
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Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.
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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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May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.
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