Lynn Barber Quotes

#1. If I could communicate only by words on a page, how much more satisfactory I would be!

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#2. People say you shouldn't marry for looks but I disagree: if I tot up all the pleasure I got from looking at David over the years I'd say it amounted to a very substantial hill of beans.

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#3. I just think I'm fairly aggressive.

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#4. What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.

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#5. I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.

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#6. I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

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#7. But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages
you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change (135).

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#8. I'm never exactly a slave to facts at the best of times. But does it matter? Who owns memories after all?

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#9. The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

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#10. I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil.

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