Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream. — Raymond Queneau Dream Copy Share Image
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history. — Raymond Queneau Disorder Copy Share Image
“His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with… — Raymond Queneau Surrealism Copy Share Image
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to… — Raymond Queneau Astonishing Copy Share Image
“As the saying goes: time is money- so give me some money to think.” — Raymond Queneau Money Copy Share Image
“Spiders’ teeth are not so long as a torment that cannot be avowed.” — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey. — Raymond Queneau Iliad Copy Share Image
It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein. — Raymond Queneau Author Copy Share Image
To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero… — Raymond Queneau Character Copy Share Image
The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written. — Raymond Queneau Love Copy Share Image
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which… — Raymond Queneau Character Copy Share Image
“He wanted to be content with an identity nicely chopped into pieces of varying lengths, but whose character was always similar, without… — Raymond Queneau April showers Copy Share Image
The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait… — Raymond Queneau Disposition Copy Share Image
“Rules cease to exist once they have outlived their value, but forms live on eternally. There are forms of the novel which… — Raymond Queneau Books Copy Share Image
Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune. — Raymond Queneau Culture Copy Share Image
“He sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination.” — Raymond Queneau Adventure Copy Share Image
“Why," he was saying, "why should one not tolerate this life, since so little suffices to deprive one of it? So little… — Raymond Queneau Life Copy Share Image
“When one made love to zero spheres embraced their arches and prime numbers caught their breath...” — Raymond Queneau Love Copy Share Image
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical… — Raymond Queneau Aspect Copy Share Image
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. — Raymond Queneau Able Copy Share Image
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his… — Raymond Queneau Diverse Copy Share Image
“We have come from all the countries of the world and are going to Saintes-Maries de la Mer. Nomads of the enigma,… — Raymond Queneau Mystery Copy Share Image
