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> [“Madame Bovary, c'est moi. Emma Bovary. She was the first. The first to thrash around in the space between a packaged wonder and reality, trying to reconcile the two in her enormous, inarticulate heart. Madame Bovary, c'est toi, perhaps, dear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonia-quirke/madame-bovary-c-est-moi-emma-bovary-she-was-the-first-the-first-to/)

Antonia Quirke

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## More by Antonia Quirke

> [“Watching movies simply is a promiscuous experience. The voracity it breeds! That quantity of quiddity compressed and quickened and sent at you! It's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonia-quirke/watching-movies-simply-is-a-promiscuous-experience-the-voracity-it/)

Antonia Quirke

> [“Madame Bovary, c'est moi. Emma Bovary. She was the first. The first to thrash around in the space between a packaged wonder and reality,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonia-quirke/madame-bovary-c-est-moi-emma-bovary-she-was-the-first-the-first-to/)

Antonia Quirke

> [“Life's a struggle against acting, which claims more lives than all the other drugs of the world put together.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonia-quirke/life-s-a-struggle-against-acting-which-claims-more-lives-than-all-the/)

Antonia Quirke

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