"Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting."

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Julian Barnes

#Character Quotes #People Quotes

“I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.”
“The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key.”
“Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.”
“I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.”
“I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.”
“Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.”

Source : Amy Lowell (1971). “Poetry and Poets: Essays”, p.3, Biblo & Tannen Publishers
“Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.”
“[My mother ] will write me an email, and it'll be Shanah Tovah. And the next day it'll be something else, Baruch Hashem Adonai. And I - I'm lost half of the time, but that was the world that I grew up in.”

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