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Julian Barnes Quotes
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![Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that’s something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later [...]. And after that, we’re just stuck with what we’ve got. We’re on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn’t it? Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/3/1027/1026763/1026763.webp "Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that’s something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later [...]. And after that, we’re just stuck with what we’ve got. We’re on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn’t it? Picture Quote #1")
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..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information (Julian Barnes Quotes)
To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself (Julian Barnes Quotes)
A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel. (Julian Barnes Quotes)
Pride makes us long for a solution to things ” a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear. (Julian Barnes Quotes)
...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness (Julian Barnes Quotes)
To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless. (Julian Barnes Quotes)
Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that’s something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later [...]. And after that, we’re just stuck with what we’ve got. We’re on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn’t it? (Julian Barnes Quotes)
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously (Julian Barnes Quotes)
Cooking is the transformation of uncertainty (the recipe) into certainty (the dish) via fuss (Julian Barnes Quotes)
God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness (Julian Barnes Quotes)
Books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information (Julian Barnes Quotes)
Religion decays, the icon remains; a narrative is forgotten, yet its representation still magnetizes (Julian Barnes Quotes)
The best fiction rarely provides answers; but it does formulate the questions exceptionally well (Julian Barnes Quotes)
Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex (Julian Barnes Quotes)
Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice (Julian Barnes Quotes)
Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke (Julian Barnes Quotes)
There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest (Julian Barnes Quotes)
The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship (Julian Barnes Quotes)
Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t (Julian Barnes Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't (Julian Barnes Quotes)
Now, stuart, as you will discover if you have not done so already, believes that the principal raison d'etre of food is to conceal from public view the hideous pattern on the plate beneath (Julian Barnes Quotes)
This is I have to admit, one murky compartment of the female psyche which has yet to benefit from the oven-scourer of reason (Julian Barnes Quotes)
Why does the writing make us chase the writer? why can't we leave well enough alone? why aren't the books enough? (Julian Barnes Quotes)
The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly (Julian Barnes Quotes)
It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them (Julian Barnes Quotes)
I am only a literary lizard basking the day away beneath the great sun of beauty. That's all (Julian Barnes Quotes)
Whores. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius (Julian Barnes Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it's giving way to something else (Julian Barnes Quotes)