Proust Quotes

39 quotes by 38 authors

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust. — Walker Percy
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of… — Holbrook Jackson
My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust. — Jane Birkin
Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier… — Edward Abbey
James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix, a Proust in… — Raymond Chandler
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in… — Cyril Connolly
Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult… — William Empson
Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about… — Lawrence Block
It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps… — Allan Massie
I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart. — Gian Carlo Menotti
The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may… — Alain de Botton
Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence. — Bruce Chatwin
The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of this century....Only two… — Kevin Myers
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce. — Alberto Moravia
A ton of Proust isnâ€™t worth an ounce of Ray Bradbury. — J. G. Ballard
One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows itself… — Harold Bloom
While reading writers of great formulatory power â€” Henry James, Santayana, Proust â€” I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to… — Joseph Epstein
All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible… — Allan Bloom
I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place. — Francoise Sagan
In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could… — Manuel Puig

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