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> [“I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those of 'real' life. A novelist is someone who confuses his own life with that of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-robbe-grillet/i-am-certain-that-a-novelist-is-someone-who-attributes-a-different/)

[Alain Robbe-Grillet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alain-robbe-grillet/)

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## More by Alain Robbe-Grillet

> [Et une fois de plus je m'avan c° ais le long de ces me" mes couloirs, marchant depuis des jours, depuis des mois, depuis…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-robbe-grillet/et-une-fois-de-plus-je-m-avan-c-ais-le-long-de-ces-me-mes-couloirs/)

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> [To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-robbe-grillet/to-tell-the-truth-girls-are-no-longer-the-way-they-used-to-be-they/)

[Alain Robbe-Grillet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alain-robbe-grillet/)

> [Premie' re approximation: j'e cris pour de truire, en les de crivant avec pre cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma vie e…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-robbe-grillet/premie-re-approximation-j-e-cris-pour-de-truire-en-les-de-crivant/)

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> [“The word "avant-garde," for example, despite its note of impartiality, generally serves to dismiss-as though by a shrug of the shoulders-any work that risks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-robbe-grillet/the-word-avant-garde-for-example-despite-its-note-of-impartiality/)

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> [What do young girls dream of? Of the knife and of blood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-robbe-grillet/what-do-young-girls-dream-of-of-the-knife-and-of-blood/)

[Alain Robbe-Grillet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alain-robbe-grillet/)

> [Memory belongs to the imagination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-robbe-grillet/memory-belongs-to-the-imagination/)

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> [Le lecteur, lui non plus, ne voit pas les choses du dehors. Il est dans le labyrinthe aussi. The reader \[as well as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-robbe-grillet/le-lecteur-lui-non-plus-ne-voit-pas-les-choses-du-dehors-il-est-dans/)

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> [The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-robbe-grillet/the-art-of-the-novel-however-has-fallen-into-such-a-state-of/)

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> [Deux me' tresou un peu plusse parent donc l'homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from a woman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-robbe-grillet/deux-me-tresou-un-peu-plusse-parent-donc-l-homme-de-la-femme-two/)

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> [There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-robbe-grillet/there-is-a-famous-russian-cartoon-in-which-a-hippopotamus-in-the-bush/)

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> [On n'e chappe pas a' son sort. One cannot escape destiny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-robbe-grillet/on-n-e-chappe-pas-a-son-sort-one-cannot-escape-destiny/)

[Alain Robbe-Grillet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alain-robbe-grillet/)

> [“I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-robbe-grillet/i-am-certain-that-a-novelist-is-someone-who-attributes-a-different/)

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> [Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-robbe-grillet/memory-belongs-to-the-imagination-human-memory-is-not-like-a-computer/)

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