Proust famous quotes

When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
-- Alain de Botton

#World #Proust #Scene

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.
-- Alberto Moravia

#Proust #Nineteenth Century #Novel

If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.
-- Alison Bechdel

#Father #Proust #Bigger

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.
-- Bruce Chatwin

#Childhood #Raw Materials #Proust

In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book.
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Book #Spirit #Proust

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
-- Eugenio Montale

#Art #Narrative #Proust

I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
-- Francoise Sagan

#Proust

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
-- Francoise Sagan

#Done #Talent #Proust

I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and Finnegans Wake and I keep expecting to meet an enthusiastic school leaver on the train, the type of person who only ever reads something because it is marvellous (and so hated school). Unfortunately the enthusiastic school leavers are all minding their own business.
-- Helen DeWitt

#School #Age #Proust

A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.
-- Italo Svevo

#Novelists #Pillars #Proust

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
-- Samuel Beckett

#Solitude #Proust #Humans

It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.
-- Theodor Adorno

#Believe #Proust #Courtesy

Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame.
-- Tyler Cowen

#Rooms #Visitors #Proust

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

#Impossible #Remember #Proust