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"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."
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"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."
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"My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout."
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"Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."
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"And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."
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"I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have."
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"Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest."
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"My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot."
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"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."
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"We are meeting with Sony, and we have a couple of other labels that suddenly have interest and that's really great because none of them have actually heard our stuff."
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"They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me."
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Explore more quotes by Raymond Queneau
"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."
Life
"The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history."
History
"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."
Fiction
"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."
History
"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."
Character
"Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey."
Experience
"The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality."
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"Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune."
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"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."
Act
"A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation."
Creation
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