Julian Barnes Quotes about Progress

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What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

Julian Barnes

Progress, Biceps, Tease

Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.

Julian Barnes

Discovery, Progress, World

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?

Julian Barnes

Progress, Pace, Pieces

Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.60, Random House

Julian Barnes Quotes about Progress

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