English - Writer | January 19, 1946 -
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
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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.
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The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.
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Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.
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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?
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