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Julian Barnes Quotes: Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.
         

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.


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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.



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Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.



The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.



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

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



The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

The land of embarrassment and breakfast.



When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.



History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.



What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.



Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.



The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.





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