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“All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.”
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“Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.”
― Pillow Talk in Europe and Other Places
― Pillow Talk in Europe and Other Places
“Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.”
― Zazie in the Metro
― Zazie in the Metro
“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― Vertigo
― Vertigo
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If certain characters resemble people in real life, it is because certain people in real life resemble characters from a novel.
Nobody, therefore, is entitled to feel included in this book.
Nobody, by the same token, to feel excluded.”
― Palinuro de México
If certain characters resemble people in real life, it is because certain people in real life resemble characters from a novel.
Nobody, therefore, is entitled to feel included in this book.
Nobody, by the same token, to feel excluded.”
― Palinuro de México
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