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Story Quotes by Raymond Queneau
- When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses…
- It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the…
- The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.
- The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
- To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story…
- Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as…
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