"The fact that we are I don't know……" — Georges Simenon
"The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world"
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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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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 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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