Marcel Proust Quotes

Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader to enable the latter to discover in himself what he would not have found but for the aid of the book.

Marcel Proust

Quotes to Explore

The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

Lamar S. Smith
Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.

Karen Salmansohn
- Thinking
- Want
- Negative
I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

Fiona Apple
- Drunk
- Before
- Got
The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.

Randy Houser
- Life
- Time
- Long
As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.

Ioan Gruffudd
- Live
- Way
- Hate
Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.

Ralph Baer
- Up
- Time
- Real