“You're our Marcel Proust, Mr. Zuckerman." Zuckerman laughed. It wasn't exactly how he saw it.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“I know the secrets; I dig Joyce and Proust above Melville and Celine.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“My idea of Hell is to be stuck in a library where all the books were authored by Marcel Proust.” — Marc Rainer 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
“And yet, she suddenly wondered, should you actually lie about how much Proust you've read?” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans? I'd be happy to read them.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one… — William Empson 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
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
“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
Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
“One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Only a determined and resourceful scholar could establish manuscript precedence - but in the race to masturbate on a printed page Proust… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
“[…] e chorei de alegria e confiança sobre as páginas do escritor como nos braços de um pai reencontrado." Marcel Proust, in:… — Marcel Proust 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
Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
“Reading Proust nearly silenced Virginia Woolf. She loved his novel, but loved it rather too much. There wasn’t enough wrong with it—a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“So the days pass and I ask myself sometimes whether one is not hypnotised, as a child by a silver globe, by… — Virginia Woolf 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
The moment in which the narrator, reaching for his boots, becomes vividly and lastingly aware of the finality of his grandmother's death… — Philip Kitcher 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
“Recalling, some time later, what I had felt at the time, I distinguished the impression of having been held for a moment… — marcel proust 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
“I would ask myself what o'clock it could be; I could hear the whistling of trains, which, now nearer and now farther… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superior to those of other people than… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“My great adventure is really Proust. Well-- what remains to be written after that? I’m only in the first volume, and there… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Proust so titillates my own desire for expression that I can hardly set out the sentence. Oh if I could write like… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing into them our preferred ideas and gestalts, a process Proust… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
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