Julian Barnes Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

  Julian Barnes

  Country, Patriotism, Great Patriotic

• When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life’s subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic.

  Julian Barnes

  Country, Pain, Book

  "Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

• Those were the days in this country where H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and Conan Doyle could have influence, and thats gone, thats true. But I dont think we have less influence in the hearts and minds of readers. I think, if anything, we have just as much, if not more.

  Julian Barnes

  Country, Heart, Thinking

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