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- Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes… — Christopher Hitchens
- When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I… — Alain Resnais
- I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. — Andrea Bocelli
- I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own… — Mary Oliver
- In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture… — Michael Dirda
- The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern… — George Orwell
- In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their… — Manuel Puig
- Flaubert had infinite correction to perform. — Roland Barthes