As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.
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I did read Sherlock Holmes as a boy but I never thought for a moment that I'd ever write about Doyle,Julian Barnes
Those were the days in this country where H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and Conan Doyle could have influence, and that's gone, that's true. But I don't think we have less influence in the hearts and minds of readers. I think, if anything, we have just as much, if not more.
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Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.
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Talking It Over' is the only one of my books people asked me what happened next, ... And they disagreed about what happened when the book concluded.
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Braque was like some hilltop castle that Picasso was constantly besieging. He invests it, bombards it, mines it, assaults it - and each time the smoke clears, the castle is as solid as ever.
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