List Of Proust Quotes

The Novel As We Knew It In The Nineteenth Century Was Killed Off By Proust And Joyce.

Narrative Art, The Novel, From Murasaki To Proust, Has Produced Great Works Of Poetry.

Proust Was The Greatest Novelist Of The Twentieth Century, Just As Tolstoy Was In The Nineteenth.

After Proust, There Are Certain Things That Simply Cannot Be Done Again. He Marks Off For You The Boundaries Of Your Talent.

I've Read Proust And Stendhal. That Keeps You In Your Place.

A Businessman Who Reads Business Week Is Lost To Fame. One Who Reads Proust Is Marked For Greatness.

I Wonder What Proust Would Have Made Of Our Present-day Locus Of Collective Fantasy, The Internet. I’m Guessing He Would Have Seized On Its Wistful Aspect, Pointing Out Gently And With Wry Humor That Much Of What Beguiles Us Is The Act Of Reaching For What Isn’t There.

You Have Two Types Of Writers: One Like Proust Who Was Locked In His Room And Wrote The Masterpiece. And The Other Type Was Hemingway Who Celebrated Life And Also Wrote A Masterpiece.

Continue Reading Proust. His Magnificent Intelligence Is Particularly Fond Of Describing Stupidity. Which Is Ultimately Exhausting.

I'm Sure Proust Was A Big Bore.

When Proust Urges Us To Evaluate The World Properly, He Repeatedly Reminds Us Of The Value Of Modest Scenes.

Friendship, According To Proust, Is The Negation Of That Irremediable Solitude To Which Every Human Being Is Condemned.