15 Proust Quotes for You to Enjoy

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust. Jane Birkin

You Mother Reading Nothing Silk Got Proust Underwear Left Get Right Start

French schools follow a national curriculum that includes arduous surveys of French philosophy and literature. Frenchmen then spend the rest of their lives quoting Proust to one another, with hardly anyone else catching the references. Pamela Druckerman

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There's nothing like taking Proust to the beach and daydreaming along to it. Jerry Hall

Nothing Beach Taking Daydreaming Along Like Proust

I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings. John Burnside

I'd like to read all of Proust. Ann Patchett

Like Read Proust

Proust is a huge author for me. Rachel Kushner

Me Proust Huge Author

I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own writing, but didn't want to stop. And it was a reaction to Proust's very long sentences. Lydia Davis

I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio. David Grann

Sports Word Read Proust Listen Radio

Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works of genius, they are meant to be read out loud and loved. Andre Aciman

Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about facts but about the interpretation of facts, not about one particular feeling but about a confluence of conflicting feelings. Everything is elusive in Proust because nothing is ever certain. Andre Aciman

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As far as I can see, the best writers in the last two hundred years have been Whitman, Rilke, Proust, Kafka. Their best works: 'Leaves of Grass - 1855;' 'Duino Elegies;' 'The Captive & The Fugitive;' 'The Castle.' Jesse Ball

Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company. I think Proust is the most intelligent person to ever have written a novel. Edward St Aubyn

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