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English Writer January 19, 1946

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It seemed to us philosophically self-evident that suicide was every free person's right: a logical act when faced with illness or senility; a heroic one when faced with torture or the avoidable deaths of others; a glamourous one in the fury of dissappointed love (see: Great Literature). Julian Barnes
When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life’s subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes quote: "When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you..."
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. Julian Barnes
I settled into a contented routine of working, spending my free time with Veronica and, back in my student room, wanking explosively to fantasies of her splayed beneath me or arched above me. Daily intimacy made me proud of knowing about make-up, clothes policy, the feminine razor, and the mystery and consequences of a woman’s periods. I found myself envying this regular reminder of something so wholly female and defining, so connected to the great cycle of nature. Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes quote: "I am only a literary lizard basking the day away beneath the..."
I am only a literary lizard basking the day away beneath the great sun of Beauty. That's all. Julian Barnes
You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string. Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes quote: "There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond..."
There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest. Julian Barnes

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