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Famous Julian Barnes Quotes
“When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.”
“The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.”
Source: Flaubert's Parrot
“..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.”
“To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.”
“Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.”
“But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.”
“The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.”