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Author - Julian Barnes
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compromise
I would have to go back into my past and deal with Adrian. My philosopher friend, who gazed on life and....
writing
The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.
the sense of an ending
Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does:otherwise there wouldn't be much of a....
book
But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.
reality
It had been a slow and painful business, discovering that the theory of love did not match the reality....
heartbreak
Opera cuts to the chase—as death does. An art which seeks, more obviously than any other form, to break....
memory
If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that's....
loss
Altitude reduces all things to their relative proportions, and to the truth. Cares, remorse, disgust....
adolescents
Our parents thought we might be corrupted by one another into becoming whatever it was they most feared:....
reader
I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers,....
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