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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."

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"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."

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"I did not know of any single soul who succeed in life without a mentorship."

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"I don't like him. He makes me laugh. It'll wrinkle my face."

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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."

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"Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire."

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"When this world is full of fashion, be unique by reflecting your own style."

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"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."
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"Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey."
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"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."
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"It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein."
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"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."
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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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"A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation."
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"The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history."
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"There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions."
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