Alain Robbe-Grillet Quotes
The reader as well as the main character does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.
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I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
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I love America a lot. I really do.
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I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.'
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Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.
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I can get away with anything. But when I try to be sincere, people just roll their eyes.
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Say, whence is the voice that, when anger is burning, Bids the whirl of the tempest to cease? That stirs the vexed soul with an aching - a yearning For the brotherly hand-grip of peace?
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For far too long, virtually every time Americans have been asked to make 'tough choices,' it has resulted in disproportionate harm for hardworking Americans and retirees.
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I don't think there's any such thing as perfection. But I'm a perfectionist. I don't believe in the idea of perfection, but I will strive to achieve it.
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Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.
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When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species.
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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
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Do you know what a thirteen-year-old girl can do when she is alone and frightened and believes she is right?
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Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.
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Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task.... In order to dive into those recesses and lay them open to the reader in a striking and intelligible manner, 'tis necessary to assume a certain freedom in writing, not strictly perhaps within the limits prescribed by rules.
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For some people, the way that they're perceived by the outside world is not a priority.
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The reader as well as the main character does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.
