Proust Quotes
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Proust is a huge author for me.
Rachel Kushner -
Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.
Walker Percy
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Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.
William Empson -
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.
Alberto Moravia -
Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.
Marcel Proust -
Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.
Bert Greene -
Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.
Albert Camus