Raymond Queneau famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Men #Ascending #Doe
The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Stories #Love Story #Modern
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Odyssey #Iliad
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Historical #Sides #Stories
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Personality #Stories #Odyssey
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Running #War #Rare Moments
To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Hero #Party #Character
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Odyssey #Ulysses #Ends
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Character #Historical #Events
It isnâ€™t happiness I am concerned with but experience.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Concerned
Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Education #Ideas #Innovation
Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Dream #Work #Men
All societies are historical.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Historical
All confessions are Odysseys.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Odyssey #Confession
Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Wisdom #Culture #Study
True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Stories #Hunger #True Story
The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait for inspiration to fall out of the heavens like roasted ortolans. He knows how to hunt...He is never inspired because he is unceasingly inspired, because the powers of poetry are always at his disposition, subjected to his will, submissive to his own activity...
-- Raymond Queneau

#Fall #Inspiration #Waiting
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Epic #Singing #Identity
Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Men #Religion #Disappear
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Fiction #Odyssey #Iliad
A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Rehabilitation #Iliad #Creation
It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Character #Views #Interesting
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Character #Historical #Important
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
-- Raymond Queneau

#People #Iliad #Disorder
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.
-- Raymond Queneau

#Character #Historical #Fiction

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