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Jules de Goncourt has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.
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There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures…
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Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it,…
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That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
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A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last…
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After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th…
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Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.
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The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and…
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There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.
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History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.
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A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to…
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Time cures one of everything-even of living.
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A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last…
— Jules de Goncourt
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To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.
— Kate Douglas Wiggin
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The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the…
— George Plimpton
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The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
— Brenda Ueland
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The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.
— Jack Kerouac
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Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke…
— E. M. Forster
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If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the…
— Pearl S. Buck
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My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
— Amy Bloom
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