"..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information."

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

Julian Barnes

#Book Quotes #Looks Quotes #Information Quotes

“I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.”
“All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.”
“Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.”
“My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.”
“Iâ€™m constantly embarrassed. I fidget and twist my hair and pull weird faces and stutter. Some days I feel quite confident, then others thereâ€™s a microscopic flaw about myself physically, which will make me embarrassed to walk the streets.”
“Just as there is no action weaker or more unreasonable than to submit one's judgment to another's, where there is no advantage to oneself, so also there is nothing greater or wiser than to place oneself unquestioningly under God's judgment by believing in every word He speaks.”
“To be lost and forgotten-to be abandoned-is a shared and terrible fear, just as our fondest hope, as we grow older, is that we might leave some parts of us behind in the hearts of those we love and in that way live on.”
“I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.”

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