Favorites Quote's
Author
Topic's
Blog
Life Seemed Even More Of A Guessing Game Than Usual.
-Julian Barnes
Please Wait....
Translating....
Select Image
Download as Image
English
Spanish
French
German
Hindi
Chinese
Life Seemed Even More Of A Guessing
Julian Barnes
Life Seemed Even More Of A Guessing Game Than Usual.
Views: 14
Topic
Games
Usual
Guessing
More From Julian Barnes
Start With The Notion That Yours Is The Sole Responsibility Unless There's Powerful Evidence To The Contrary
Powerful
Responsibility
Sole
(on Grief) And You Do Come Out Of It, That’s True. After A Year, After Five. But You Don’t Come Out Of It Like A Train Coming Out Of A Tunnel, Bursting Through The Downs Into Sunshine And That Swift, Rattling Descent To The Channel; You Come Out Of It As A Gull Comes Out Of An Oil-slick. You Are Tarred And Feathered For Life.
Grief
Sunshine
Tunnels
It Took Me Some Years To Clear My Head Of What Paris Wanted Me To Admire About It, And To Notice What I Preferred Instead. Not Power-ridden Monuments, But Individual Buildings Which Tell A Quieter Story: The Artist's Studio, Or The Belle Epoque House Built By A Forgotten Financier For A Just-remembered Courtesan.
Artist
Years
Paris
Well, They Each Seem To Do One Thing Well Enough, But Fail To Realize That Literature Depends On Doing Several Things Well At The Same Time.
Writing
Literature
Realizing
His Air Of Failure Had Nothing Desperate About It; Rather, It Seemed To Stem From An Unresented Realisation That He Was Not Cut Out For Success, And His Duty Was Therefore To Ensure Only That He Failed In The Correct And Acceptable Fashion.
Fashion
Cutting
Air
Trending Author
James Buchan
Grantland Rice
Maurice Blanchot
Tammy Baldwin
Reynolds Price
Stephen Hawking
Category
Information