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Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.
Julian Barnes
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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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Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.
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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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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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Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.
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...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness
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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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He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.
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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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To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.
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Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.
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One of the troubles is this: the heart isn't heart-shaped.
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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.
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You lose the world for a glance? Of course you do. That is what the world is for: to lose under the right circunstances.
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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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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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We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them.
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The more you learn, the less you fear.
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Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.
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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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