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Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.
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Julian Barnes
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 19
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In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.
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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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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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How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal how dark the sky how big the waves. We are all lost at sea, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us.
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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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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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Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to go the very extremes of literature, like Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, before you get a literary work that literally unreadable.
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Books are where things are explained to you life is where things aren't.
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Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.
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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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I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.
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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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Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.
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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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Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.
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To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness.
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If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.
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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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All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.
Julian Barnes
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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