Marcel Proust Quotes
... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in us through the intermediary of an image of that joy or that misfortune; the ingeniousness of the first novelist was in understanding that, in the apparatus of our emotions, since the image is the only essential element, the simplification which consists of purely and simply suppressing the factual characters is a definitive improvement.Marcel Proust
Quotes to Explore
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
Fiona Apple -
I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.
Idris Elba -
What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
Eddie Albert -
Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
Aaron Neville -
I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.
Idris Elba -
Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
Francesca Annis
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You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
Karl Malone -
Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
Garry Trudeau -
When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
Randy Houser -
I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.
Jack Canfield -
Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.
G. Willow Wilson -
The name Jack was given by an American tourist.
Jack Ma
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I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.
Taylor Swift -
We're all continuing to grow up and get better as musicians, and the chemistry as a band continues to deepen.
Zac Brown Band -
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao Tzu -
I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
Walt Whitman -
At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.
Harold Rosenberg -
We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.
David Henry Hwang
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Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuriating at times when they're little, but on the whole, they're such a joy. I don't think I was the most brilliant mother when they were young. I had quite a bit of help because I was working and I enjoyed my work.
Mary Berry -
I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.
Francis Bacon -
Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields, See how these names are fĂȘted in the waving grass And by the streamers of the white cloud And whispers of the wind in the listening sky. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre. Born of the sun, they travelled a short while toward the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.
Stephen Spender -
... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in us through the intermediary of an image of that joy or that misfortune; the ingeniousness of the first novelist was in understanding that, in the apparatus of our emotions, since the image is the only essential element, the simplification which consists of purely and simply suppressing the factual characters is a definitive improvement.
Marcel Proust