# Julian Barnes

- Quotes: 4
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/julian-barnes

## Books

- [Metroland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/julian-barnes/metroland.md) — 1 quote
- [Talking It Over](https://www.leafyquotes.com/julian-barnes/talking-it-over.md) — 2 quotes
- [The Sense of an Ending](https://www.leafyquotes.com/julian-barnes/the-sense-of-an-ending.md) — 1 quote

## Recently added quotes

> Now, Stuart, as you will discover if you have not done so already, believes that the principal raison d'etre of food is to conceal from public view the hideous pattern on the plate beneath.

p. 28 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/julian-barnes/talking-it-over/now-stuart-as-you.md)

> I read Hemingway's posthumous Paris memoirs, rumoured to have been written by his wife (`Out of the question,' Toni assured me, `they're so badly written they must be authentic').

p. 85 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/julian-barnes/metroland/i-read-hemingways.md)

> This is I have to admit, one murky compartment of the female psyche which has yet to benefit from the oven-scourer of Reason.

p. 43 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/julian-barnes/talking-it-over/this-is-i-have.md)

> History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

p. 17 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/julian-barnes/the-sense-of-an-ending/history-is-that.md)