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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.

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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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.

Julian Barnes

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

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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.

Julian Barnes

And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.

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