Julian Barnes · Skopia

Quotes

14

Yes, of course we were pretentious—what else is youth for?

The Sense of an Ending · 2011

★ 3.7

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

The Sense of an Ending · 2011

★ 3.6

What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

The Sense of an Ending · 2011

★ 3.6

When you're young—when I was young—you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something more practical: you want them to support your life as it is and has become. You want them to tell you that things are OK. And is there anything wrong with that?

The Sense of an Ending · 2011

★ 3.5

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Books

1

Flaubert's Parrot

1984★ 5.4