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Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by John Bayley

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Last updated on December 22, 2024.

John Bayley

John Oliver Bayley, CBE, FBA, FRSL was a British academic, literary critic and writer. He was the Warton Professor of English at the University of Oxford from 1974 to 1992. His first marriage was to the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch.

British - Novelist | 1925 - January 12, 2015

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The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner. — © John Bayley

The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.

John Bayley

John Bayley

Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.

John Bayley

John Bayley

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

John Bayley

John Bayley

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

John Bayley

John Bayley

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