Time
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And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.
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Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes is an English writer who has won numerous awards, including the Man Booker Prize, the Shakespeare Prize, and the David Cohen Prize for Literature.
* He was born in Leicester, England, in 1946.
* He studied modern languages at Magdalen College, Oxford.
* After graduating, he worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary.
* He began writing fiction in the 1970s.
* His novels include Flaubert's Parrot, England, England, and The Sense of an Ending.
* He has also written essays, short stories, and a memoir.
* He is married and has two children.
* He lives in London.
* He was born in Leicester, England, in 1946.
* He studied modern languages at Magdalen College, Oxford.
* After graduating, he worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary.
* He began writing fiction in the 1970s.
* His novels include Flaubert's Parrot, England, England, and The Sense of an Ending.
* He has also written essays, short stories, and a memoir.
* He is married and has two children.
* He lives in London.
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Time
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History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.
Writing
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The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.
Life
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Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.
Happiness
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To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
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