Proust Quotes

39 quotes by 38 authors

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. — Eugenio Montale
Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact,… — Edward St Aubyn
I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own… — Lydia Davis
The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In… — Lev Grossman
In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness. — John Kenneth Galbraith
After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent. — Francoise Sagan
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a… — Anais Nin
I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and Finnegans Wake and… — Helen DeWitt
Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else. — Albert Camus
I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective fantasy, the Internet. Iâ€™m guessing he would have seized on its wistful… — Jennifer Egan
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned. — Samuel Beckett
If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust. — Alison Bechdel
How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to read the whole… — Haruki Murakami
I have depth. I've read Proust. No, wait, that was Pooh. Winnie the Pooh. My bad" Charley Davidson. — Darynda Jones
Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising. — Unknown Author
Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear? — Elizabeth Bowen
To me, the idea of living this lifestyle is so boring that I would prefer to read Marcel Proust the whole time during a tour. — Laurent Brancowitz
I find it's impossible for me to read Proust. — Norman MacCaig

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