Marcel Proust Quotes

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

Marcel Proust

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• I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Family
  • Respect
  • Poverty

• No decent career was ever founded on a public.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Career
  • Ever
  • Decent

• I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • House
  • Trump
  • Reasonable

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
  • Horror

• I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Myself
  • Yourself
  • Train

• A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Book
  • Ignore

• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Music
  • God
  • Art

• Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Work
  • Me
  • Passion

• For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • American
  • Opportunity
  • Best

• You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • Day
  • Treat

• If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parenting

• If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • May
  • True
  • Expression

• It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Interesting
  • Villain

• Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Dad

• I'm one of the first invention capitalists.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • First
  • Invention

• I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for you right now', and I say, 'Oh yes, but!' Which is not a good way to be.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Brother
  • Childhood

• Jesus said, 'Judge not, lest ye be judged.' Let's stop trying to choose the political leaders who we believe are the most godly because, in reality, only God knows people's hearts. You and I don't, and we are all sinners.

  

  Jerry Falwell, Jr.
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• I grew up with a very strong sense of what is just and what is not or, to put it this way, I grew up with a keen sense of a division, the reality of a division of perception in people's lives between those who govern and those who govern.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • People
  • Reality
  • Strong

• Everything happens through relationships.

  

  Arne Glimcher

• Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Control

• If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Reality
  • Fantasy
  • Nourish