When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life’s subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic.
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. - Julian Barnes
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.
- Julian Barnes
To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. - Julian Barnes
To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness.
You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; then, slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you. - Julian Barnes
You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; then, slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you.
When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, more… - Julian Barnes
When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, more…
You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not. They may crash and burn, or bur… - Julian Barnes
You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not. They may crash and burn, or bur…
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… - Julian Barnes
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…
In life, every ending is just the start of another story. - Julian Barnes
In life, every ending is just the start of another story.
What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible. - Julian Barnes
What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.
I don't believe in God, but I miss him. - Julian Barnes
I don't believe in God, but I miss him.
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