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Julian Patrick Barnes is an English writer. Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for his book The Sense of an Ending , and three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: Flaubert's Parrot , England, England , and Arthur & George . He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. In addition to novels, Barnes has published collections of essays and short stories.

In 2004 he became a Commandeur of L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His honours also include the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. January 1946  •  Other names J. Barnes
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Julian Barnes Quotes

“There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.”

Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“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.”

Julian Barnes book Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“I read Hemingway's posthumous Paris memoirs, rumoured to have been written by his wife (`Out of the question,' Toni assured me, `they're so badly written they must be authentic').”

Julian Barnes book Metroland

Page 85.
Metroland (1981)

“Now, Stuart, as you will discover if you have not done so already, believes that the principal raison d'etre of food is to conceal from public view the hideous pattern on the plate beneath.”

Julian Barnes book Talking It Over

Page 28.
Talking It Over (1991)

“You need one of those slave-driving old studio bosses if you ask me, not a sensitive graduate who went into movies because he liked the clouds in Antonioni and then turned himself into a nouvelle vague Deutscher all hot for Truthspiel.”

Julian Barnes book A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

Page 194.
See wikipedia on Michelangelo Antonioni.
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (1989)

“This is I have to admit, one murky compartment of the female psyche which has yet to benefit from the oven-scourer of Reason.”

Julian Barnes book Talking It Over

Page 43.
Talking It Over (1991)