“ Try as I could — which wasn’t very hard — I rarely ended up fantasising about a markedly different life from the one that has been mine.
— Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
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“ This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn’t turn out to be like Literature.
— Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
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“ Not replying was the only way to keep my temper.
— Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
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“ We knew from our reading of great literature that Love involved Suffering, and would have happily have got in some practice of Suffering if there was an implicit, perhaps even logical, promise that Love might be on its way.
— Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
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“ Yes, of course we were pretentious — what else is youth for?
— Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
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“ We were essentially taking the piss, except when we were being serious. He was essentially serious, except when he was taking the piss. It took us a while to work this out.
— Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
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“ What you end up remembering isn’t always the same as what you have witnessed.
— Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
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