Julian Barnes, The Noise Of Time Quotes
Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art's sake: it exists for people's sake.
Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.
If you turned your back on irony, it curdled into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul.
