"The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds,……" — Georges Simenon
"The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference."
—
Georges Simenon
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
25 Quotes by Georges Simenon
Georges Simenon has 25 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.
-
I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.
-
I have made love to ten thousand women.
-
Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my…
-
And Boucard desisted, probably because like everyone else he was deeply impressed by this man who had laid all ghosts,…
-
I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.
-
For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals,
-
If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.
-
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
-
I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.
-
One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.
-
I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
See all 25 quotes by Georges Simenon »
More Bed Quotes
This quote is filed under Bed Quotes,
one of 3,432 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks…
— Andrea Arnold
-
I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel…
— David Attenborough
-
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same…
— Michele Bachmann
-
I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back…
— Antonio Banderas
-
I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as…
— Tallulah Bankhead
-
The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival…
— Djuna Barnes
-
Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
— Roseanne Barr
-
Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a…
— Lynda Barry
-
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to…
— Bernard Baruch
-
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
— Charles Baudelaire
-
Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our…
— George Ade
See all 3,432 Bed Quotes »