Julian Barnes Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later: between twenty and thirty, say. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it? And also - if this isn't too grand a word - our tragedy.

  Julian Barnes

  Attitude, Character, Tragedy

• Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.

  Julian Barnes

  People, Would Be, Opinion

• You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; then, slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you.

  Julian Barnes

  Eye, People, Age

  Julian Barnes (1986). “Staring at the sun”, Jonathan Cape

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