Julian Barnes Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.

  Julian Barnes

  Lying, Night, Thinking

• Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.

  Julian Barnes

  Strong, Fear, Women

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

• History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.

  Julian Barnes

  Memories, Lying, Survivor

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.56, Random House

• I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory.

  Julian Barnes

  Memories, Lying, Pulse

  "The Sense of an Ending". Book by Julian Barnes (Page 122), www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.

• What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that. Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated. ... 'Finn?' '"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." (quoting Patrick Lagrange)

  Julian Barnes

  Memories, Lying, Self

• Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

  Julian Barnes

  Memories, Lying, Imagination

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

• History is the lies of the victors.

  Julian Barnes

  Lying, Self Delusion

• [Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.

  Julian Barnes

  Beautiful, Lying, Facts

  Julian Barnes, Vanessa Guignery, Ryan Roberts (2009). “Conversations with Julian Barnes”, p.64, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I'm interested in such things as the difference between how we perceive the world and what the world turns out to be. The difference is between the stories we tell others and the stories we tell ourselves. There is a wonderful Russian saying, which I use as the epigraph of one of my novels, which goes, He lies like an eyewitness. Which is very sly, clever and true.

  Julian Barnes

  Clever, Lying, Differences

  "Conversation: Julian Barnes, Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize". "Art Beat" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. November 8, 2011.

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