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Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own.
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Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?
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The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.
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But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
Julian Barnes
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January 19, 1946
(age 78)
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