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A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep. — Djuna Barnes

Is it a greater tragedy to achieve all one's desires or to lose them all? — Mark T. Barnes

Conversion is the lifelong process of turning away from our plans and turning toward God's maddening, disruptive, creativity. — M. Craig Barnes

Tell her," I said, "that I am my mother's daughter. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

But that's one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time. — Julian Barnes

...is not your hero. He's your god. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Perhaps I just feel safer with the history that's been more or less agreed upon. — Julian Barnes

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it. — Roy Barnes

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil's mark or the snorkel of sanity. — Julian Barnes

In Jewish folk music, despair is disguised as the dance. And so, truth's disguise was irony. — Julian Barnes

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them. — Julian Barnes

I am only a literary lizard basking the day away beneath the great sun of Beauty. That's all. — Julian Barnes

Plenty of guys are good at sex, but conversation, now there's an art. — Linda Barnes

Well, in one sense, I can't know what it is that I don't know. That's philosophically self-evident. — Julian Barnes

Sorry if this little war's inconvenienced you in any way," Indris drawled. "I'll try to schedule the next one with you in mind — Mark T. Barnes

I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous. — P.C. Cast

The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all. — Djuna Barnes

No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into ... — Djuna Barnes

There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know. — Roy Barnes

there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust — Djuna Barnes

Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon. — Susan Stinson

I have a plan. Boys, it's hunting season. Weapon up — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; then, slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you. — Julian Barnes

I am a worm in comparison with His Excellency. I am a worm.' 'Yes, that's just it, you are a worm indeed. — Julian Barnes

It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it. — Michael D. Barnes

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing. — Clive Barnes

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works. — Fred Barnes

Gustave's last years are arid and solitary. He — Julian Barnes

All's fair in love and war--and black ops. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

For all a lifetime's internal struggling, you were finally no more than what others saw you as. — Julian Barnes

If you look at the last decade of global temperature, it's not increasing, — John Barnes

The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable. — Julian Barnes

The emphasis is on the lost, the abandoned, the discarded sinners, God's detritus. — Julian Barnes

But if you're very clever, I think there's something that can unhinge you if you're not careful. — Julian Barnes

Forty's nothing, at fifty you're in your prime, sixty's the new forty, and so on. — Julian Barnes

Isn't the most reliable form of pleasure, Flaubert implies, the pleasure of anticipation? Who needs to burst into fulfilment's desolate attic? — Julian Barnes

To use the old jailhouse term and not the modern rock and roll one, a punk's question. — Adrian Barnes

Now I see that night does something to a person's identity, even when asleep. — Djuna Barnes

Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world. — Simon Barnes

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning. — Michael D. Barnes

Don't think this means I'm giving up. There's more than one way to decapitate a hellhound, and as it so happens, I know them all. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. — Julian Barnes

Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure. — Julian Barnes

Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit. — Will C. Barnes

Making my way out of the bedroom, I found the loft empty, a visceral reminder that it had always been my sister's choice not to know me. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

There's a rule or something that if a girl can crack you up, you have to do what she says. — John Barnes

You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on. — Barnes Wallis

Aren't you supposed to be taking my order?' I asked.
'Bite me. And then you can tell me what's wrong. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need ... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure — Simon Barnes

The two of us rode in companionable silence until the car pulled into Ivy's drive. Bodie cut the engine, and I reached for the door handle. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

If I lied, you'd smell it, so I'll stick with that's no concern of yours and suggest you leave it at that. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

That's what you do when you run out of options: you go home. — Adrian Barnes

It's a great shame that the world was organized with two sexes. It makes for a lot of trouble. — Margaret Ayer Barnes

Saying spirituality cannot exist without religion is like saying hamburgers cannot exist without McDonald's. — Steven Barnes

Straw met camel's back. Breaking commenced. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it. — Djuna Barnes

If the writer were more like a reader, he'd be a reader, not a writer. It's as uncomplicated as that. — Julian Barnes

It's your favorite person."
"No. You're not."
"I won't embarrass you by proving I am. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Poetry's packaged as a late-night slot, a quote minority taste unquote, like water-skiing or goat-fucking or something. — Julian Barnes

But it's still the eyes we look at, isn't it? That's where we found the other person — Julian Barnes

Life in the fast lane," Michael's reply. "You have to adjust for inflation. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections. — Djuna Barnes

Why does anything left-wing have to be trendy before it's read, and by the time it's trendy it's already a force for conservatism? — Julian Barnes

It's not something easily done alone and there is no room for error. — Mark T. Barnes

Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people ... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press. — Fred Barnes

Highly readable, compelling analysis of America's current political crises — Craig Barnes

Miss Barnes clearly didn't know what in the world to do. She was twenty-four years old, for heaven's sake. — Liane Moriarty

Devon: "Why, Bryn, I do believe he's given her your pen."
Bryn: "Well, get Freud on the phone. He'll have a field day with this one. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

...and who's to say what would have been for the best? You only found out afterwards, when it was too late. — Julian Barnes

Come and share a pot of tea,
my home is warm and my friendship's free. — Emilie Barnes

Truths about writing can be framed before you've published a word; truths about life can be framed only when it's too late to make any difference. — Julian Barnes

We were getting ready to cross into another pack's territory, and my second-in-command was making spirit fingers. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I take it Asher called you?" "What's your endgame here, Henry? Why are you going? — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary. — Julian Barnes

Home isn't a place. It's not having a bed to come home to, or a yard, or a Christmas tree at the holidays. Home is the people who love you. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Style isn't what you have---it's what you do with what you have. — Emilie Barnes

After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat. — Djuna Barnes

I have no-fail chemistry. A guy turns me on, he's the wrong one for me. — Linda Barnes

Writers of either gender ought to be able to do the opposite sex-that's one basic test of competence, after all. — Julian Barnes

I cannot explain what's between us, Lady Newbury, other than to say that I have an uncanny urge to kiss you whenever we meet. — Sophie Barnes

The simple truth - every day is precious. When it's gone, it never comes back to you. — Emilie Barnes

We are blind to each other's humanity. — Ernie Barnes

I said,'What's your problem?' Asshole." There was a question behind his question, and that shadow question was 'Do you want to dance? — Adrian Barnes

I'm not telling you what to do, I'm just telling you what you're going to do. There's a difference. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person. — Margaret Ayer Barnes

That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time. — Ben Barnes

There's always talk. It's the same price as rain. — Julian Barnes

It's the little details in life that make all the difference. — Emilie Barnes

Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling. — Ben Barnes

Anyone who claims that truth is stranger than fiction has never gazed into a writer's mind, or read my stories. — Lucian Barnes

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth. — Leonard Barnes

A Jew's undoing is never his own, it is God's; his rehabilitation is never his own, it is a Christian's. — Djuna Barnes

I dreamt that I woke up. It's the oldest dream of all, and I've just had it — Julian Barnes

It's not the bad memories that tear a person apart. It's the good ones. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

could practically hear Henry's subtle, pointed smile in response to those words. "Then you don't need to worry about me," he said. "Do you? — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar. — Julian Barnes

Lake, could you please stop sweet-talking the weapons? It's kind of freaking me out. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary — Julian Barnes

The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it's giving way to something else. — Julian Barnes

When we lift someone else's load, we add color not only to our lives but to the lives of others as well. — Emilie Barnes