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The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.
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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What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.
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Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.
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Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.
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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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History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.
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Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.
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Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?
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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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And perhaps it was also the case that, for all a lifetime's internal struggling, you were finally no more than what others saw you as. That was your nature, whether you liked it or not.
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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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Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.
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[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.
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I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.
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If you’re that clever you can argue yourself into anything.
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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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I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.
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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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You can put it another way, of course you always can.
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In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.
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History is the lies of the victors.
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