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The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see.


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JULIAN SCHNABEL We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept...
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JULIAN BARNES She found him propped against a wall, clearly very severely injured.
JULIAN SMITH I just wanted to make sure that the team didn't feel like, 'Oh, woe is me' after last week. That's w...
JULIAN PETERSON Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment i...
JULIAN BAGGINI Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, th...
JULIAN BARNES Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek ...
JULIAN BAGGINI I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.
JULIAN CASABLANCAS You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is...
JULIAN ASSANGE I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit...
JULIAN ASSANGE Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where...
JULIAN BAGGINI I think competitiveness between two people is still relevant, and the battle of the sexes still intr...
JULIAN OVENDEN I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. S...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a differ...
JULIAN BAGGINI The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
JULIAN BARNES The writer's life is full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet th...
JULIAN BARNES You grew old first not in your own eyes,but in other people's eyes;slowly,you agreed with their opin...
JULIAN BARNES Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to yo...
JULIAN BARNES The secret of happiness is to be happy already
JULIAN BARNES The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly
JULIAN BARNES Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar.
JULIAN BARNES