"I have always tried to write in a……" — Georges Simenon
"I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words."
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25 Quotes by Georges Simenon
Georges Simenon has 25 quotes on this site.
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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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And Boucard desisted, probably because like everyone else he was deeply impressed by this man who had laid all ghosts,…
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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 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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More Abstract Quotes
This quote is filed under Abstract Quotes,
one of 741 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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