Julian Barnes Quotes

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Julian Barnes

Profession : Writer

Birth : January 19, 1946

All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.

Julian Barnes

I'm a complete democrat in terms of who buys my books.

Julian Barnes

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

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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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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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The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

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Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

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Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?

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