Julian Barnes Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else.

  Julian Barnes

  Mean, Government, Giving

• Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?

  Julian Barnes

  Giving, Feelings, Age

• Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence . Art is not a brassiere. At least, not in the English sense. But do not forget that brassiere is the French word for life-jacket.

  Julian Barnes

  Uplifting, Art, Self Confidence

• Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

  Julian Barnes

  Giving, Decision, Enough Time

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.93, Random House

• To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.

  Julian Barnes

  Psychics, Giving, Looks

  "Julian Barnes: The sense of another ending". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2013.

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