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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.

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