Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting. - Julian Barnes

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What I love about the currawongs is the way in which they appear from nowhere and, for a brief period, rule the garden's soundscape, only to disappear as quickly as they arrived.

Julian Barnes

Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

Based, Character, Constricting, Known, People

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Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

Fiction, Honest, Thinking, Truth, Writing

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.

Enough, Literature, Realize, Realizing, Things, Writing

Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?

Given, Grief, Mean, Names, Separate

And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned paradox of it - in order to behave well, you have to behave badly.

Damned, Live, Love You, Names, Order

We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, can't grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have with history--even our own small, personal, largely undocumented piece of it?

Largely, Mysteries, Pace, Pieces, Progress, Undocumented

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John Gould

What I love about the currawongs is the way in which they appear from nowhere and, for a brief period, rule the garden's soundscape, only to disappear as quickly as they arrived.

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Sam Claflin

In fact I've been rather blessed with roles in my career that really alter my actual look. I've never looked the same in any film I've done.

Blessed, Careers, Fact, Film, Look, Roles

Dick Button

One of the reasons for putting yourself on the line, is that life is not simply treading water. . . I always felt that once you reach a certain point, you have to try and move ahead.

Line, Moving, Putting, Reach, Trying, Water

Annie Leonard

The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.

History, Knowing, Shapes, Stories, Told, Written

Maria Popova

Leaving love behind is never easy, for it also asks that we leave behind the part of ourselves that did the loving. And yet for all but the very fortunate and the very foolish, this difficult transition is an inevitable part of the human experience, of the ceaseless learning journey that is life - because, after all, anything worth pursuing is worth failing at, and fail we do as we pursue.

Fail, Journey, Learning, Leaving, Love Is, Part