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Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes
English Writer
Born: Jan 19, 1946
About Book Life Think Write You
Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine
The land of embarrassment and breakfast. Julian Barnes
Breakfast Embarrassment Land
Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various times the European centre of power, of civilisation, of the arts, and (self-advertisingly, at least) of love. Julian Barnes
Love You Power Cities About Civilisation Paris Various Could Argue Had Most Least Lot Times Arts Centre Boast Certainly European
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind. Julian Barnes
Grief Mind Myth About Rising Point Write Overall Terms Metaphor Coming Falling Being Flat Height Depth Planning Initially Thereof
Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction. Julian Barnes
Truth To Be Honest Think Tell Write Journalism Well Than Fiction Less Honest
There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were. Julian Barnes
Will Bad Lazy Readers Always Were
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book. Julian Barnes
Life Book Reading Perfect Remains Self-Discovery Printed Discovery Task Separate Serious Symbiotic Symbol Imaginative
I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people. Julian Barnes
People Unless About Attached Write Ideas Novelist
I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death! Julian Barnes
Death Me Fear Think Entirely Seems Morbid Rational Beyond Am Goes Whereas
I'm a complete democrat in terms of who buys my books. Julian Barnes
Complete Books Democrat Terms Who Buys
It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist's studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan. Julian Barnes
Me Took Monuments Tell Financier Admire Some About Paris Individual Studio Clear Head Instead House Buildings Built Years Quieter Artist Forgotten Wanted Story Which Preferred Notice Belle
Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why. Julian Barnes
Our Gaze Thou Tells Exactly Paris Marvel Attractions Without Go Iconic Us Asking Why Here
Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones? Julian Barnes
Speak Important Those Directly Tend Most Parts Important Parts Truest Lines The Most Important Us Novel Recall

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