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• Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust. — Walker Percy
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• 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
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• James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix,… — Raymond Chandler
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• 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
• It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the… — Allan Massie
• I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by… — 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… — 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

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