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Julian Barnes Quotes

The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: January 19, 1946

Topics

Mind Book Changes Unpredictable Read

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.

Nature Truth Great Human Nature Tell

You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

Funny Love Time Humor You Place

If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don't have that kind of time, so I'd much rather stick to playing guitar.

Live Time Me Guitar You Kind

Through the '80s, nobody cared about Johnny Cash.

Nobody Through Cash About Johnny

When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure the hard way. I'm using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space.

Job Space People Building Generation

In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet - with all my favorite elements of literature: a sense of flow, of propulsion, of wanting to read every sentence.

Writing Literature Journalism Flow

It's different for people who have not seen a symphony conductor conduct from a chair. I feel very connected to the orchestra in a way that a conductor sometimes does not feel. I think it's more visceral.

People Think Feel Chair Sometimes

I'd seen people overstay their welcome and I didn't want that to happen at all.

Welcome People Want Happen Seen

I have never been attracted by younger men.

Brigitte Macron

Men Never Been Younger Attracted

I love working with Coach O'Brien, Coach Godsey, and they are terrific football coaches.

Love Football Coach Working Terrific

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

Music Me Energy Better Feeling Punk

What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.

Food You Entertainment Need Clothing

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