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Julian Barnes Quotes

Julian Barnes quotes

English Writer January 19, 1946

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When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again. Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes quote: "And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach..."
And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability. Julian Barnes
I was a normal eighteen-year-old: shuttered, self-conscious, untravelled and sneering; violently educated, socially crass, emotionally blurting. Julian Barnes
When we are young and sensitive, we are also at our most hurtful; whereas when the blood begins to slow, when we feel less sharply, when we are more armoured and have learnt how to bear hurt, we tread more carefully. Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes quote: "But cockteasing is also a metaphor: she is someone who will..."
But cockteasing is also a metaphor: she is someone who will manipulate your inner self while holding hers back from you. Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes quote: "As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your..."
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. Julian Barnes
History isn't in the lies of the victors. I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious nor defeated. Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes quote: "Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer...."
Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions. Julian Barnes
It is important to understand that in the modern world we prefer the replica to the original because it gives us the greater frisson. I leave that word in French because I think you understand it well that way. Julian Barnes
The main reason I felt foolish and humiliated was because of - what had I called it to myself, only a few days previously? - 'the eternal hopefulness of the human heart'. And before that, 'the attraction of overcoming someone's contempt'. I don't think I normally suffer from vanity, but I'd clearly been more afflicted than I realised. Julian Barnes
For Montaigne, the death of youth, which so often takes place unnoticed is the harder death; what we habitually refer to as 'death' is no more than the death of old age...The leap from the attenuated survival of senescence into nonexistence is much easier than the sly transition from heedless youth crabbed and regretful age. Julian Barnes
...how time first grounds us and then confounds us....give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical. Julian Barnes
Taxi-drivers in Frankfurt are said to dislike the annual Book Fair because literary folk, instead of being shuttled to prostitutes like respectable members of other convening professions, prefer to stay in their hotels and fuck one another Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes quote: "in this country shadings of class resist time longer than..."
....in this country shadings of class resist time longer than differentials in age Julian Barnes
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. Julian Barnes

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