Famous Julian Barnes Quotes
Time…give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.– Julian Barnes
Irony – The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.– Julian Barnes
If you turned your back on irony, it curdled into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul.– Julian Barnes
I don’t ever want to get old. Spare me that. Have you the power? No, even you don’t have the power, alas.– Julian Barnes
… forty’s nothing, at fifty you’re in your prime, sixty’s the new forty, and so on.– Julian Barnes
I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.– Julian Barnes
..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.– Julian Barnes
There is violence in this supposedly tender heart of mine.– Julian Barnes
Games are for childhood, and sometimes I think I lost my childhood young.– Julian Barnes
Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.– Julian Barnes