top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Fortune quotes
"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."
"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
Explore more quotes by Raymond Queneau
"There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions."
"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."
"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."
"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."
"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."
"The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality."
"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."
bottom of page