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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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"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest."
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"I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so."
"I'd always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology."
"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions."
"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."
"It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein."
"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."
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