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- You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma… — Margaret Atwood
- In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture… — Michael Dirda
- Madame Bovary is myself. — Gustave Flaubert
- Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be… — Alberto Manguel
- Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that… — Gustave Flaubert
- But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No. — David Mitchell
- Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost… — Michael Cunningham
- In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and… — John Updike