“Flaubert prided himself on his frankness; it was indeed brutal.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I like what Flaubert once wrote. History is prophecy, looking backwards.” — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
“Emigres: Earned their livelihood by giving guitar lessons and mixing salads.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“Flaubert tells us that three things are required for happiness: stupidity, selfishness, and good health. I am," he told Morgan, "an unhappy… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
I am finishing a biography of [Gustave] Flaubert. Because he is the opposite of what I am. One needs to rub up… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“No sooner do we come into this world,’ said Flaubert, ‘than bits of us start to fall off.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I have recommended you the dignity of skepticism: yet here I am, prowling around the Absolute. Technique of contradiction? Remember, rather, what… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
I have a boundless passion for Flaubert. It's unthinkable to me that someone might not have read 'Madame Bovary.' He writes with… — Brigitte Macron Copy Share Image
“It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary,… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
Flaubert called himself a human pen; I would say that I am a human ear. When I walk down the street and… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
“My mother, who has read all of Balzac and quotes Flaubert at every dinner, is living proof every day of how education… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“No matter how many times we read "King Lear," never shall we find the good king banging his tankard in high revelry,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“He had no document but his memory; the training he had acquired with each added hexameter gave him a discipline unsuspected by… — Jorge Luís Borges Copy Share Image
“Flaubert teaches you to gave upon the truth and not blink from its consequences; he teaches you, with Montaigne, to sleep on… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Be selfish, stupid and have good health. But if stupidity is lacking, then all is lost." Flaubert's dictum for getting through life… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“And one gathers from this enormous modern literature of confes- 11 sion and self- analysis that to write a work of genius… — Lee A. Jacobus Copy Share Image
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