It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author. — Theodor Adorno 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
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. MARCEL PROUST” — Jeff Foster 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
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned. — Samuel Beckett 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
“«fabrication de la petite madeleine de Marcel Proust». Un paquete de ocho” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio. — David Grann Copy Share Image
In 1997, Alain de Botton published his book 'How Proust Can Change Your Life.' I was charmed by it. I remember using… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
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
“Proust's life changed due to a very large inheritance he received (in today's terms, a principal of about $6 million, with a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Nineteenth-century novelist Marcel Proust said that, “The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in seeing with new… — Whitney Johnson Copy Share Image
“The belief that a person has a share in an unknown life to which his or her love may win us admission… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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
After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent. — Francoise Sagan 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 famous for his rhapsodies on hawthorns but his book has only three of these, whereas there are thirteen scenes in… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
In the last volume of In Search of Lost Time, Proust compares himself to Scheherazade: he says he has finally understood the… — Elif Batuman 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
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
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
“The only real voyage consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the eyes… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
“M. Proust was more severe than M. de Caillavet on Anatole France: "He was selfish and supercilious. He had read so much… — Céleste Albaret Copy Share Image
“We weren’t idealistic about much, we children of the 1950s, but we were certainly idealistic about art. We went into it with… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The process which had begun in her - and in he a little earlier only than it must come to all of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Kilmartin wrote a highly amusing and illuminating account of his experience as a Proust revisionist, which appeared in the first issue of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“-NONREADING- Bookstores don't provide a remote control for Proust, you can't switch to a soccer match, or a quiz show, win a… — Wisława Szymborska Here Copy Share Image
“Within five minutes of leaving the reunion, I'd undone the double wrapping and eaten all six rugelach, each a snail of sugar-dusted… — Philip Roth 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
“In the literary machine that Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” constitutes, we are struck by the fact that all the parts… — Gilles Deleuze 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
“... 'You can't read everything. I've never got beyond the beginning of Proust. I love him, but I can't seem to get… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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