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- 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… — 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… — Edward Abbey
- James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix,… — Raymond Chandler
- Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a… — Cyril Connolly
- Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one… — 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… — Lawrence Block