Quotes From "Talking It Over" By Julian Barnes

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Love is just a system for getting someone to call you Darling after sex. Julian Barnes
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But I don't remember. I won't remember. Memory is an act of will, and so is forgetting. Julian Barnes
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If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that's what caused me to be like this, it's not my fault. Permit me to correct you: it probably is your fault. And kindly spare me the details. Julian Barnes
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Games are for childhood, and sometimes I think I lost my childhood young. Julian Barnes
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There is violence in this supposedly tender heart of mine. Julian Barnes
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I don't ever want to get old. Spare me that. Have you the power? No, even you don't have the power, alas. Julian Barnes