Georges Simenon Quotes

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• A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.
• I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.
• I have made love to ten thousand women.
• Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.
• And Boucard desisted, probably because like everyone else he was deeply impressed by this man who had laid all ghosts, who had lost all shadows,…
• I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.
• For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals,
• If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.
• I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
• I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.
• One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.
• I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
• The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people,…
• If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.
• It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two…
• Madame....gloatingly savored her words as earlier she had savored her pig's trotter.
• I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood.
• The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
• The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New…
• We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

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