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
“Nothing I had drunk had ever tasted like that before: rich and warm and perfectly happy in my mouth. I remembered that… — Neil Gaiman 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
Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost. — Edna O'Brien 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
A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism. — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
“This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising. — Bert Greene Copy Share Image
In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
Both Proust and Joyce record the ways in which human perspectives can be transformed. In Portrait, Stephen Dedalus is constantly undergoing epiphanies,… — Philip Kitcher 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
I love Marcel Proust, but I leave him to his nostalgia. I don't approach art the way most people do. I don't… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
“...But it was above all that fragmentation of Albertine into many parts, into many Albertines, that was her sole mode of existence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to… — Lydia Davis 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
“Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience.” — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
I have depth. I've read Proust. No, wait, that was Pooh. Winnie the Pooh. My bad" Charley Davidson. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Yet the Narrator’s quest is not only for his own identity and vocation. He seeks an understanding of art, sexuality and worldly… — Adam A. Watt Copy Share Image
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“The variations of the Duchess's judgment spared no one, except her husband. He alone had never been in love with her, in… — Marcel Proust 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
