“Proust called these moments of unity between writer and reader “that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Achille Adrien Proust, was a famous doctor and epidemiologist, responsible for studying and attempting to remedy the causes and movements of cholera… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“[…] e chorei de alegria e confiança sobre as páginas do escritor como nos braços de um pai reencontrado." Marcel Proust, in:… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Proust's life changed due to a very large inheritance he received (in today's terms, a principal of about $6 million, with a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The belief that a person has a share in an unknown life to which his or her love may win us admission… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Nineteenth-century novelist Marcel Proust said that, “The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in seeing with new… — Whitney Johnson Copy Share Image
In 1997, Alain de Botton published his book 'How Proust Can Change Your Life.' I was charmed by it. I remember using… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
“Events like this don't give me the sense of oneness others seem to enjoy; it's always been private occasions that make me… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I do study Marcel Proust, for multiple technical virtuosities but also his swerve, as you say, between characters and in scenes. Certain… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Mann and Joyce are very different, and yet their fiction often appeals to the same people: Harry Levin taught a famous course… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“In the case of the solitary, his seclusion, even when it is absolute and ends only with life itself, has often as… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We weren’t idealistic about much, we children of the 1950s, but we were certainly idealistic about art. We went into it with… — John Updike Copy Share Image
By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the petite madeleine in Proust's In Search of Lost Time... but as… — Michael Lesy Copy Share Image
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Habit enables us to cling to the familiar, to the self we think we know with a persistence almost irresistible. An anodyne… — Howard Moss Copy Share Image
“A real person, profoundly as we may sympathize with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“According to Proust, one proof that we are reading a major new writer is that his writing immediately strikes us as ugly.… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Speaking of novels,’ I said, ‘you remember we decided once, you, your husband and I, that Proust’s rough masterpiece was a huge,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Se o que Proust diz é verdade, que a felicidade é a ausência do delírio, então eu nunca conhecerei a felicidade. Pois… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time,' especially 'Time Regained,' made me think differently about what the novel is and can do. Then… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
“My work comprises one vast book like Proust's except that my remembrances are written on the run instead of afterwards in a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Hence Proust’s assertion that the greatness of works of art has nothing to do with the apparent quality of their subject matter,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Im sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture,… — Jessi Klein Copy Share Image
James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix,… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“M. Proust was more severe than M. de Caillavet on Anatole France: "He was selfish and supercilious. He had read so much… — Céleste Albaret Copy Share Image
“The only real voyage consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the eyes… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
“Carried away in a sort of dream, he smiled, then he began to hurry back towards the lady; he was walking faster… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“not required to stay late in the Whitehall area, I used, as a general routine, to come straight back from duty to… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Proust is famous for his rhapsodies on hawthorns but his book has only three of these, whereas there are thirteen scenes in… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
In the last volume of In Search of Lost Time, Proust compares himself to Scheherazade: he says he has finally understood the… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
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