"The Iliad is the private lives of people……" — Raymond Queneau
"The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history."
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26 Quotes by Raymond Queneau
Raymond Queneau has 26 quotes on this site.
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Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.
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Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end…
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True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.
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The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does…
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When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet…
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Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
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A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.
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It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to…
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Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical…
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All confessions are Odysseys.
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All societies are historical.
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More Disorder Quotes
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one of 565 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy.…
— Roseanne Barr
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It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
— Pierre Bayle
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I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has…
— David Beckham
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Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.
— Tony Blair
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There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making…
— Albert Camus
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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
— Emily Carr
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The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost…
— Jimmy Carr
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I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.
— Kirstie Alley
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is…
— A. R. Ammons
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in…
— Fiona Apple
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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the…
— Phyllis Diller
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