Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
—Julian Barnes
Topics: Sex, Love
The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly.
—Julian Barnes
Topics: Writers, Authors & Writing
Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that’s too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.
—Julian Barnes
Topics: History
You grow old first not in your own eyes, but in other people’s eyes; then, slowly, you agree with their opinion of you.
—Julian Barnes
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Seamus Heaney Irish Poet, Playwright
Muriel Spark Scottish Novelist, Poet
Norman Mailer American Novelist
Ford Madox Ford English Novelist, Poet, Critic
Doris Lessing British Novelist, Poet
Stevie Wonder American Singer
Ray Bradbury American Science-Fiction Writer
Jane Fonda American Actress
Mikhail Gorbachev Soviet Head of State
Cynthia Ozick American Novelist, Essayist