I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.
Julian BarnesIn my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In Adrian's terms, I gave up on life, gave up on examining it, took it as it came. And so, for the first time, I began to feel a more general remorse - a feeling somewhere between self-pity and self-hatred - about my whole life. All of it. I had lost the friends of my youth. I had lost the love of my wife. I had abandoned the ambitions I had entertained. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.
Julian BarnesTag: reality ambition memory self-pity remorse compromise regret
What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.
Julian BarnesWas this their exact exchange? Almost certainly not. Still, it is my best memory of their exchange.
Julian BarnesTag: memory
You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country.
Julian BarnesTag: nostalgia the-sixties
There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond these, there is unrest. There is great unrest.
Julian Barnes...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness
Julian Barnes....in this country shadings of class resist time longer than differentials in age
Julian BarnesStart with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary
Julian BarnesHistory: the lies of the victors, the self-delusions of the defeated.
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