{"id":6369,"date":"2012-06-30T06:10:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T13:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=6369"},"modified":"2012-06-27T12:01:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T19:01:29","slug":"good-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=6369","title":{"rendered":"Good Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Most of us make an instinctive decision, <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

then build an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And call the result common sense.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The above quote is from the book The Sense of an Ending<\/em><\/strong><\/a> a novel by Julian Barnes.\u00a0 We read it in the Fingerhut Book Club this month.\u00a0 It is a very well written short novel that makes you think a bit about life and aging.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A few more quotes:<\/p>\n

“Some Englishman once observed that marriage is a long dull meal with the pudding served first.\u00a0 I think that’s far too cynical.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately I’m going to miss the book club meeting because we are going hiking in the Alps.<\/p>\n

Life is good.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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