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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 06774de | trykh drwGhy Trf pyrwz nyst, byshtr khTrhhy bzmndgn st khh khthrshn nh pyrwz bwdhnd w nh shkhstkhwrdh. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 77ff557 | The conservative, the slow-witted and the envious existed in every profession. | Julian Barnes | ||
| d13e896 | What had Old Joe Hunt answered when I knowingly claimed that history was the lies of the victors? "As long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated." Do we remember that enough when it comes to our private lives?" | life memories memory time | Julian Barnes | |
| 0da26cd | We may choose to freeze a moment and say that it all 'began' then, but as an historian I have to tell you that such labelling is intellectually indefensible. What we are looking at is almost always a replica, if that is the locally fashionable term, of something earlier. There is no prime moment. | Julian Barnes | ||
| bb86126 | Vivimos como si la memoria fuese una consigna de equipajes bien construida y atendida por un personal eficiente. | Julian Barnes | ||
| e1c15df | Op het erf van de boerderij zag je soms de meest onwaarschijnlijke vormen van verbondenheid - de gans verliefd op de ezel, het katje veilig spelend tussen de poten van de vervaarlijke kettinghond. En op het erf van de mensheid bestonden vormen van verbondenheid die al even onwaarschijnlijk, en toch, voor de betrokkenen, nooit absurd waren. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 9c8c362 | jyy khwndh bwdm gr mykhwhyd mrdm bh anchh mygwyyd twjh khnnd, Sdytn r blnd nkhnyd, blkhh arm Hrf bznyd. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 3c44812 | specific fund, you see. It's a sort of general fund. Because at some point everyone wants to run away from their life. It's about the only thing human beings have in common. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 3fd8b54 | time's many paradoxes. For instance: that when we are young and sensitive, we are also at our most hurtful; whereas when the blood begins to slow, when we feel less sharply, when we are more armoured and have learnt how to bear hurt, we tread more carefully. | Julian Barnes | ||
| ef643d8 | But then lovers always assume that people are on their side. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 9724561 | And in your opinion, the notion that everything works out in the end, and the counter-notion that nothing ever does, are both equally banal. | Julian Barnes | ||
| bb77d2a | The camera is as subjective as we are. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| db95421 | finding another woman can bring an exceptional clarity of mind to a man all of a sudden. | Julian Barnes | ||
| a069796 | What he didn't - or couldn't - tell Joan was his terrifying discovery that love, by some ruthless, almost chemical process, could resolve itself into pity and anger. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 9de6d69 | Sad sex is the saddest sex of all. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 2dc6f73 | the littleness of life that art exaggerates"?" | Julian Barnes | ||
| 45a301c | Daha once bir araya getirilmemis iki kisiyi bir araya getirebilirsiniz. Bu bazen atesle calisan bir balona, hidrojenle calisan bir balonu baglamanin su ilk denemesinde oldugu gibi bir seydir; yere cakilip yanmayi mi yeglersiniz yoksa yanip yere cakilmayi mi? Ama bazen de deneme basarilir ve yeni bir sey yaratilir dunya degisir. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 2576429 | those photographs taken from lunar orbit, in which our planet looks more or less like any other planet (except to an astronomer): silent, revolving, beautiful, dead, irrelevant. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 2718445 | What happened to the truth is not recorded. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 7f3b66c | Most of us have only one story to tell. I don't mean that only one thing happens to us in our lives: there are countless events, which we turn into countless stories. But there's only one that matters, only one finally worth telling. This is mine. Perhaps this is an illusion all lovers have about themselves: that they escape both category and description. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 95dc5bf | Privately, the three of us examined his case and came up with a theory: that the key to a happy family life was for there not to be a family--or at least, not one living together. Having made this analysis, we envied Adrian the more. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 9feeed0 | The panic takes some to God, others to despair, some to charitable works, others to drink, some to emotional oblivion, others to a life where they hope that nothing serious will ever trouble them again. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 8188e00 | He didn't go to church. He read The Times and the Telegraph. He had been friendly and polite with me, but also sarcastic and rude; mainly, I would say, indifferent. He seemed to be cross with life. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 39f5ea4 | I nodded to him with the authority of a young academic approving a peasant. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 0ee5dc3 | It seems to me that when you are young, you think about sex most of the time, but you don't reflect on it much | young-sexuality | Julian Barnes | |
| b1bd128 | Most of us have only one story to tell. I don't mean that only one thing happens to us in our lives: there are countless events, which we turn into countless stories. But there's only one that matters, only one finally worth telling. This is mine. | quote the-only-story | Julian Barnes | |
| b9f9e54 | For most of us, the first experience of love, even if it doesn't work out--perhaps especially when it doesn't work out--promises that here is the thing that validates, that vindicates life. And though subsequent years might alter this view, until some of us give up on it altogether, when love first strikes, there's nothing like it, is there? Agreed? | love promises vindication vindication-across-time | Julian Barnes | |
| 265c502 | Love, he had ventured, was like the vast and sudden uncreasing of a lifelong frown. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 2dceade | And one other thing: don't ask me about the weather. I don't much remember what the weather has been like during my life. True, I can remember how hot sun gave greater impetus to sex; how sudden snow delighted, and how cold, damp days set off those early symptoms that eventually led to a double hip replacement. But nothing significant in my life ever happened during, let alone because of, weather. So if you don't mind, meteorology will play.. | julian-barnes the-only-story weather | Julian Barnes | |
| 5f9d283 | My parents' marriage, to my unforgiving nineteen-year-old eye, was a car crash of cliche. Though I would have to admit, as the one making the judgement, that a 'car crash of of cliche' is itself a cliche. | humor julian-barnes language the-only-story | Julian Barnes | |
| f622e5d | And perhaps I I didn't even understand the young when I was young. That could be true too. | julian-barnes out-of-the-loop outsider the-only-story young youth | Julian Barnes | |
| faa1df6 | Nowadays, at the other end of life, I have a rule of thumb about whether or not two people are having an affair: if you think they might be, then they definitely are. | affairs julian-barnes the-only-story | Julian Barnes | |
| 1726bbc | So. I see where you're going--bus number 27 to a crossroads near Delphi. Look, I did not want, at any point, on any level, to kill my own father and sleep with my own mother. It's true that I wanted to sleep with Susan--and did so many times--and for a number of years thought of killing Gordon Macleod, but that is another part of the story. Not to put too fine a point on it, I think the Oedipus myth is precisely what it started off as: melo.. | clever humor julian-barnes oedipal oedipus psychology the-only-story | Julian Barnes | |
| bb711f6 | They grow up so quickly, don't they?" when all you really mean is: time goes faster for me nowadays. Margaret's" | Julian Barnes | ||
| 38ef61a | Later--well, what came later, came later. | julian-barnes later the-only-story | Julian Barnes | |
| f5973a8 | They grow up so quickly, don't they?" when all you really mean is: time goes faster for me nowadays." | Julian Barnes | ||
| 930002a | Sit yourself down," Joan instructed as we reached the the fag-fogged, gin-scented den that was nominally her sitting room." -- | humor julian-barnes the-only-story | Julian Barnes | |
| ba31f07 | And first love always happens in the overwhelming first person. How can it not? Also, in the overwhelming present tense. It takes us time to realise that there are other persons, and other tenses. | first-person julian-barnes language present-tense the-only-story | Julian Barnes | |
| d3486c7 | So (and this would have happened earlier, but I am only remembering it now): I am visiting her one afternoon. | memory nonlinear storytelling the-only-story | Julian Barnes | |
| f0ad6ba | The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| 128906b | Whereas it seemed to me, back then, in the absolutism of my condition, that love had nothing to do with practicality; indeed, was its polar opposite. And the fact that it showed contempt for such banal considerations was part of its glory. Love was by its very nature disruptive, cataclysmic; and if it was not, then it was not love. | julian-barnes love practicality the-only-story | Julian Barnes | |
| ce59c1f | It is only a metaphor--or the worst of dreams; yet there are metaphors which sit more powerfully in the brain than remembered events. | julian-barnes memory metaphor reality the-only-story | Julian Barnes | |
| 901d20b | But that was the nature of relationships: there always seemed to be an imbalance of one sort or another. | julian-barnes power-dynamics relationship-dynamics relationships the-only-story | Julian Barnes | |
| 86b4123 | She has only a ghostplay on some frayed screen of memory, which she takes to be the present. | memory memory-loss the-only-story | Julian Barnes |