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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
Essayist
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Leicester
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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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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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History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.
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I have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of darkness in which only death appears as a pinprick of light: in other words, the exact opposite of the normal condition of life.
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But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.
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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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One of the troubles is this: the heart isn't heart-shaped.
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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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If you’re that clever you can argue yourself into anything.
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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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Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
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Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary.
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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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Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.
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Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure.
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And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.
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The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.
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Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.
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Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various times the European centre of power, of civilisation, of the arts, and (self-advertisingly, at least) of love.
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Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it.
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