“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.””
Flaubert's Parrot
Quotes by Julian
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.””
The Sense of an Ending
“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”
The Sense of an Ending
“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.””
The Sense of an Ending
“What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.””
The Sense of an Ending
“All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.””
“It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.””
The Sense of an Ending