Marcel Proust Quotes
Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
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To bring the fans into the world of being like part of the crew through things like cell phone cases, making them feel like they are on tour with their favorite band is a cool thing.
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The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere.
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Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.
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I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.
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I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.
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I'm basically a pretty shy person and I don't dance or get into fights. But there are all these things inside me that get out when I perform. It's like a real world when I play, here I can do all the things that I can't do in real life.
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Making drawings with text in the first place, it really was born of a desire to be economic, and to do things as simply as possible, and to do as much as I could by the most economic means.
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We want to undersell and overdeliver. We hopefully would be ensuring another period of sustained success.
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Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.
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If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights. All other primates, when they're scared, they run up a tree, where they feel safe.
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As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.
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Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.
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I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
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That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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The recent penalties levied by CPSC send a strong message that failing to report potential hazards is illegal.
