"And Boucard desisted, probably because like everyone else……" — Georges Simenon
"And Boucard desisted, probably because like everyone else he was deeply impressed by this man who had laid all ghosts, who had lost all shadows, and who stared you in the eyes with cold serenity."
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Georges Simenon
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25 Quotes by Georges Simenon
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A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.
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I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.
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I have made love to ten thousand women.
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Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my…
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I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.
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For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals,
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If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.
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I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
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I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.
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One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.
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I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
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The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible…
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