I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

Julian Barnes in The Sense of an Ending

About Julian Barnes

Portrait of Julian Barnes

Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 with The Sense of an Ending, having been shortlisted three times previously with Flaubert's Parrot, England, England, and Arthur & George. Barnes has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan...

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