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
It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author. — Theodor Adorno 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
“Now I could appreciate the merits of a broad, poetical, powerful interpretation, or rather it was to this that those epithets were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Thousands and thousands of books are thrown on the market every year presenting some new variant of the personal romance, some tale… — Leon Trotsky 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
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
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
“I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinancy to implore an… — Marcel Proust 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
“Many contemporaries of Proust’s insisted that he wrote the way he spoke, although when Du côté de chez Swann appeared in print,… — Christopher Prendergast 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
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
It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the… — Allan Massie 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
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear? — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence. — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“De liefde? Die bedrijf ik vaak maar ik spreek er nooit over. (Mme de Villeparisis in 'De kant van Guermantes'.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
