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Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away.

Throw off your grief,’ doubters imply, ‘and we can all go back to pretending death doesn’t exist, or at least is comfortably far away.
– Julian Barnes

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  8. Opera cuts to the chase-”as death does. An art which seeks, more obviously than any other form, to break your heart. – Julian Barnes
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  11. Pretending to him that she felt something would be easy. Pretending to herself that she didn’t? That was a whole other story. – Brynn Kelly
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  20. The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. – Julian Barnes
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  22. History isn’t what happened, history is just what historians tell us. – Julian Barnes
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  31. …I need to return briefly to a few incidents that have grown into anecdotes, to some approximate memories which time has deformed into certainty. – Julian Barnes
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  34. May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby. – Julian Barnes
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  37. ..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information. – Julian Barnes
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