French Literature Quotes

• There is an interview given by [ Jean-Paul] Sartre in the USA where he is asked what the future of French literature is, and he replies that the next great writer of the future is [Albert] Camus.

  Catherine Camus

  Usa, Literature, Next

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• Many Europeans think that all Moroccans speak French, but no. I had to make an effort to learn it when I studied French literature at the university in Rabat.

  Abdellah Taia

  Thinking, Speaks French, Effort

  "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.

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• "The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool." Our quote of the day is, from of all people, the Marquis de Sade, the most infamous writer in all of French literature. And by the way, if you recognized that quote, you're sick.

  Tucker Carlson

  Men, Thinking, People

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 6, 2005.

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• Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open those books, you open The Flowers of Evil and begin to read. If it were written today, you'd be absolutely stupefied by the work. It's this incredible period where the work is timeless, ageless. So yeah, I just love all those guys. It's my deep passion in those great 19th century writers.

  Johnny Depp

  Flower, Book, Character

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• To Americans Boris Vian has long been one of the hidden glories of French literature. In I Spit on Your Graves, he wrote an utterly untypical work, a blast from his Id that may well have killed him. Even now, with misogyny disguised as racial justice, its venom remains potent and disturbing, in equal parts appalling and riveting. It is a singular book, not for the squeamish, and not to be passed by.

  Jim Krusoe

  Book, Long, Justice

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• How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

  Lytton Strachey

  Hygiene, Evil, Dubious

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics

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• The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

  Lytton Strachey

  Literature, Common

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics

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• What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Brother, Book, Single Life

  "Newsweek" Magazine, May 23, 1960.

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• When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Acting, Literature, Columbia

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• In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

  Jose Bergamin

  Meals, Literature

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