How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.
タグ: memory, life, biography

"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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