[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together.
タグ: technology, science, progress, future

"Julian Barnes"の他の名言

In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.
タグ: novel, first, anxiety, hope
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.
タグ: height, being, grief, mind
I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.
タグ: instinct, survival
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.
タグ: serious, book, reading, life
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
タグ: book, great, you, life
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