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Julian Barnes
“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where th...
“History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories o...
“And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.”
“When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – ...
“To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is la...
“The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.”
“Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.”
“He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult...
