Quotes from book

Talking It Over

“Love is just a system for getting someone to call you Darling after sex.”

Julian Barnes book Talking It Over

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“I’ve always thought you are what you are and you shouldn’t pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you’re pretending to be.”

Julian Barnes book Talking It Over

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“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)

“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)