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Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes föddes den 19 januar 1946
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Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

The secret of happiness is to be happy already

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly

The Sixties were an oyster decade: slippery, luxurious and reportedly aphrodisiac they slipped down the historical throat without touching the sides

You grew old first not in your own eyes,but in other people's eyes;slowly,you agreed with their opinion of you.

The writer's life is full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.

The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

George can't believe it but it's true, that's what Doyle said to him,

I briefly considered writing it as a non-fiction book but the fact of the matter is that George left few traces,

But I think you could make it truer by making it up. In a way when people say it could have been non-fiction, that is gratifying because I've convinced them and they can't tell the bits I've made up from the bits I didn't make up.

That form is very freeing, ... It's a great relief for the novelist not to have to be there in the way a third-person narrator implies. If you get rid of all that -- that judging entity -- you just leave the character alone with the reader.

It's the great drama, the great unknowable of most of our lives, ... We don't all paddle up the Amazon in a canoe and get shot at, but we do the equivalent of that (in our relationships).

Braque was like some hilltop castle that Picasso was constantly besieging. He invests it, bombards it, mines it, assaults it - and each time the smoke clears, the castle is as solid as ever.

'Talking It Over' is the only one of my books people asked me what happened next, ... And they disagreed about what happened when the book concluded.

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