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People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves - Julian Barnes Quotes

People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves

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

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

I was also interested in the racial side of it. Even today, the Chief of the London Metropolitan Police is trying to make the force more representative of London and there's a lot of resistance from the predominantly white force. - Julian Barnes Quotes

I was also interested in the racial side of it. Even today, the Chief of the London Metropolitan Police is trying to make the force more representative of London and there's a lot of resistance from the predominantly white force.

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. - Julian Barnes Quotes

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.

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers. - Julian Barnes Quotes

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.

I don't regard it as a historical novel, I regard it as a novel of now, which just happens to be set when it is set, - Julian Barnes Quotes

I don't regard it as a historical novel, I regard it as a novel of now, which just happens to be set when it is set,

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

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

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. - Julian Barnes Quotes

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.

I think he had a quite sort of ambiguous relationship to Holmes. It made him rich, it made him famous, but as often the case with these things, a writer can turn against his or her most successful creation; hence, he killed him off (in 'The Adventure of the Final Problem') and brought him back by popular request. And, of course, people did sort of confuse them and assume if he could invent these complicated mysteries, then he could also solve them. - Julian Barnes Quotes

I think he had a quite sort of ambiguous relationship to Holmes. It made him rich, it made him famous, but as often the case with these things, a writer can turn against his or her most successful creation; hence, he killed him off (in 'The Adventure of the Final Problem') and brought him back by popular request. And, of course, people did sort of confuse them and assume if he could invent these complicated mysteries, then he could also solve them.

He left no trace apart from the local papers and Doyle's own account of the case. He really had to be invented from the ground up. - Julian Barnes Quotes

He left no trace apart from the local papers and Doyle's own account of the case. He really had to be invented from the ground up.

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex - Julian Barnes Quotes

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

The secret of happiness is to be happy already - Julian Barnes Quotes

The secret of happiness is to be happy already

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't. - Julian Barnes Quotes

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

In soccer, the form of the encoded adjective is well-developed. - Julian Barnes Quotes

In soccer, the form of the encoded adjective is well-developed.

I did read Sherlock Holmes as a boy but I never thought for a moment that I'd ever write about Doyle, - Julian Barnes Quotes

I did read Sherlock Holmes as a boy but I never thought for a moment that I'd ever write about Doyle,

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

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, - Julian Barnes Quotes

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. - Julian Barnes Quotes

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.

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). - Julian Barnes Quotes

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).

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. - Julian Barnes Quotes

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.

Those were the days in this country where H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and Conan Doyle could have influence, and that's gone, that's true. But I don't think we have less influence in the hearts and minds of readers. I think, if anything, we have just as much, if not more. - Julian Barnes Quotes

Those were the days in this country where H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and Conan Doyle could have influence, and that's gone, that's true. But I don't think we have less influence in the hearts and minds of readers. I think, if anything, we have just as much, if not more.

He came attached to the case. ... I didn't know much about his biography before I started, and I hadn't read him since I was 20, I suppose. But in the process of research and writing, I found him to be a very admirable and a moral and warmhearted person. - Julian Barnes Quotes

He came attached to the case. ... I didn't know much about his biography before I started, and I hadn't read him since I was 20, I suppose. But in the process of research and writing, I found him to be a very admirable and a moral and warmhearted person.

I just read the new novel by Jay McInerney, who is a friend of mine. And I did so with great apprehension, because it takes place around the time of those attacks. But I thought he handled it beautifully, since he comes at it from a bit of a side angle. - Julian Barnes Quotes

I just read the new novel by Jay McInerney, who is a friend of mine. And I did so with great apprehension, because it takes place around the time of those attacks. But I thought he handled it beautifully, since he comes at it from a bit of a side angle.

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

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

Eyes

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. - Julian Barnes Quotes

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. - Julian Barnes Quotes

The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex. - Julian Barnes Quotes

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

Love

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