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Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.
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creating
wallpaper
marcel-proust
art
flowers
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Albert Camus |
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Thackeray's a good writer and Flaubert is a great artist. Trollope is a good writer and Dickens is a great artist. Colette is a very good writer and Proust is a great artist. Katherine Anne Porter was an extremely good writer and Willa Cather was a great artist.
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charles-dickens
gustave-flaubert
katherine-anne-porter
sidonie-gabrielle-colette
willa-cather
william-makepeace-thackeray
marcel-proust
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Truman Capote |
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Kilmartin wrote a highly amusing and illuminating account of his experience as a Proust revisionist, which appeared in the first issue of Ben Sonnenberg's quarterly in the autumn of 1981. The essay opened with a kind of encouragement: 'There used to be a story that discerning Frenchmen preferred to read Marcel Proust in English on the grounds that the prose of was deeply un-French and heavily influenced by English writers such as Ruskin.' I cling to this even though Kilmartin thought it to be ridiculous Parisian snobbery; I shall never be able to read Proust in French, and one's opportunities for outfacing Gallic self-regard are relatively scarce.
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ben-sonnenberg
essays
french-people
grand-street-magazine
in-search-of-lost-time
john-ruskin
marcel-proust
revisionism
snobbery
terence-kilmartin
english
french
paris
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Christopher Hitchens |
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For Proust, an injection of jealousy is the only thing capable of rescuing a relationship ruined by habit.
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relationships
marcel-proust
long-term-relationships
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Alain de Botton |