Julian Barnes Quotes

"Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex."

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“The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly”

¨The secret of happiness is to be happy already”

“People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves”

“The Sixties were an oyster decade: slippery, luxurious and reportedly aphrodisiac they slipped down the historical throat without touching the sides”

´´He left no trace apart from the local papers and Doyle's own account of the case. He really had to be invented from the ground up.”

´´You grew old first not in your own eyes,but in other people's eyes;slowly,you agreed with their opinion of you.”

“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.”

“The land of embarrassment and breakfast.”

“That form is very freeing, ... It's a great relief for the novelist not to have to be there in the way a third-person narrator implies. If you get rid of all that -- that judging entity -- you just leave the character alone with the reader.”

“It's the great drama, the great unknowable of most of our lives, ...We don't all paddle up the Amazon in a canoe and get shot at, but we do the equivalent of that (in our relationships).”

“'Talking It Over' is the only one of my books people asked me what happened next, ...And they disagreed about what happened when the book concluded.”

“As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.”

“I don't regard it as a historical novel, I regard it as a novel of now, which just happens to be set when it is set,”

“I did read Sherlock Holmes as a boy but I never thought for a moment that I'd ever write about Doyle,”

“In soccer, the form of the encoded adjective is well-developed.”

“Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.”

“I was also interested in the racial side of it. Even today, the Chief of the London Metropolitan Police is trying to make the force more representative of London and there's a lot of resistance from the predominantly white force.”

“I just read the new novel by Jay McInerney, who is a friend of mine. And I did so with great apprehension, because it takes place around the time of those attacks. But I thought he handled it beautifully, since he comes at it from a bit of a side angle.”

Source: http://thinkexist.com/quotes/julian_barnes/3.html

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