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About Julian Barnes
English essayist, novelist and short story writer
Julian Barnes is an English essayist, novelist, and short story writer. He is known for work that moves across fiction and essays, with a style that has made him a notable presence in contemporary English literature. His writing spans novels, short stories, and nonfiction essays, showing a range that has kept him widely read. On this site he is represented by 140 quotes, reflecting the reach of his work and the enduring interest in his prose.
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- “I remember what Old Joe Hun said when arguing with Adrian: that mental states can be inferred from actions. T…”Julian Barnes
- “Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing severa…”Julian Barnes
- “Opera cuts to the chase—as death does. An art which seeks, more obviously than any other form, to break your…”Julian Barnes
- “One of the things he had learned in life, and which he hoped he could rely on, was that a greater pain drives…”Julian Barnes
Explore Memory
- “My dad got into this group, Commission, with Fred Hammond, and that was my biggest gospel memory. I would hea…”Ro James
- “The wind considers how trauma is - in essence - just a memory that violates previous memories too barbaricall…”Samuel Armen
- “This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.”Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Books by Julian Barnes
Flaubert's Parrot
1984
England, England
1999
The Sense of an Ending
2011
Arthur and George
2005
Love, etc
1994