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• I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. — Andrea Bocelli
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• 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
• 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
• And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word. — Dorothy Parker
• I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said.… — James Joyce
• [Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was… — Julian Barnes
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