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... forty's nothing, at fifty you're in your prime, sixty's the new forty, and so on.

… forty’s nothing, at fifty you’re in your prime, sixty’s the new forty, and so on.
– Julian Barnes

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  1. A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. – Thomas Jefferson
  2. At ten, you are foolish. At twenty, you are naive. At thirty, you are alert. At forty, you are experienced. At fifty, you are wise. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  3. …imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one’s life in a coal mine. – Hector Berlioz
  4. Duntz asked Smith, ‘Added up, how much money did you get from the Cutters?’ ‘Between forty and fifty dollars. – Truman Capote
  5. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty. – Doris Lessing
  6. When I write, I do not like using ten dollar words. I like the fifty-centers. Everybody has fifty-cents, even those that are too proud to admit it. – TA Cline
  7. Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got. – Sophia Loren
  8. Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. – Julian Barnes
  9. Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? – Julian Barnes
  10. Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. – Julian Barnes
  11. Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance. – Julian Barnes
  12. Pride makes us long for a solution to things -“ a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear. – Julian Barnes
  13. Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn’t what poor items they would be. – Julian Barnes
  14. The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. – Julian Barnes
  15. The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else. – Julian Barnes
  16. Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art’s sake: it exists for people’s sake. – Julian Barnes
  17. History isn’t what happened, history is just what historians tell us. – Julian Barnes
  18. Music escapes from words: that is its purpose, and its majesty. – Julian Barnes
  19. You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I’m afraid, looks a ????ing mess. – Julian Barnes
  20. Love is just a system for getting someone to call you Darling after sex. – Julian Barnes
  21. you find yourself repeating, -˜They grow up so quickly, don’t they?’ when all you really mean is: time goes faster for me nowadays. – Julian Barnes
  22. What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn’t behave as he would have done in a book? – Julian Barnes
  23. Of course, there were other sorts of literature — theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical — but they were just dry wanks. – Julian Barnes
  24. There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd. – Julian Barnes
  25. The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is ‘success’ in mourning? – Julian Barnes
  26. What you end up remembering isn’t always the same as what you have witnessed. – Julian Barnes
  27. He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself. – Julian Barnes
  28. …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
  29. But I don’t remember. I won’t remember. Memory is an act of will, and so is forgetting. – Julian Barnes
  30. wear flannel next to your skin, and never believe in eternal punishment. – Julian Barnes
  31. Opera cuts to the chase-”as death does. An art which seeks, more obviously than any other form, to break your heart. – Julian Barnes
  32. May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby. – Julian Barnes
  33. But life never lets you go, does it? You can’t put down life the way you put down a book. – Julian Barnes
  34. In life, every ending is just the start of another story. – Julian Barnes
  35. Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke. – Julian Barnes
  36. ..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information. – Julian Barnes
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. Irony – The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity. – Julian Barnes
  40. Time…give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical. – Julian Barnes

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