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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
Translator
Writer
Leicester
England
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Edward Pygge
Julian Patrick Barnes
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Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.
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He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.
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He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would be more clear-edged, more defined, more finite. Instead they seem like weather, like clouds constantly re-forming into new shapes, blown by nameless, unidentifiable winds.
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The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.
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The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
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In life, every ending is just the start of another story.
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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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Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?
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Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?
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I remember laughing with relief that the same old adolescent boredom goes on from generation to generation. ...the words took me back to my own years of stagnancy, and that terrible waiting for life to begin. [p. 68]
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The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.
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Books are where things are explained to you life is where things aren't.
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You can put it another way, of course you always can.
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The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and there is no operating novelist to dispel the blur.
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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 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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To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness.
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But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business.
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Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.
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If you’re that clever you can argue yourself into anything.
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