Jules Renard Quotes - Page 4

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• Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

  Jules Renard

  Writing, Talking, Way

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• We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.

  Jules Renard

  Interest, Advise

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• It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

  Jules Renard

  Anger, Thinking, Mad

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• How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.

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  Flower, Fall, Delicate Things

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.62, Tin House Books

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• The less I understand life, the more I live it!

  Jules Renard

  Understanding, Human Nature

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• Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

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  Success, Writing, People

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.286, Tin House Books

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• In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.

  Jules Renard

  Writing, Oxen, Toil

  Jules Renard (1964). “The journal of Jules Renard”

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• Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

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  Men, Drunk, Too Much

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.6, Tin House Books

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• The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.

  Jules Renard

  Men, Giving, Dinner

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• The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.

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  Strength, Strong, Sweat

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.17, Tin House Books

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• Add two letters two paris and it's paradise.

  Jules Renard

  Two, Paris, Add

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• Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.

  Jules Renard

  Men, Ducks, Long

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• Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

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  Hiking, Bird, Mind

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.266, Tin House Books

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• Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

  Jules Renard

  Money, Writing, Literature

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• Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

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  Heart, Eugenics, Brain

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.222, Tin House Books

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• Those moments when you feel you want to read something truly beautiful. The eyes make a tour of the library, and there is nothing. Then you decide to take no matter what, and it is full of beautiful things.

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  Beautiful, Book, Eye

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.138, Tin House Books

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• In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.

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  Eggs, Space, Littles

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.196, Tin House Books

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• Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

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  Coins, Currency, Sentences

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• The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.

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  Yield, Void, Poet

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.250, Tin House Books

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• Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.

  Jules Renard

  Kindness, Be Kind, Ask Me

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.126, Tin House Books

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• Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

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  Truth, Power, Shock

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• Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.

  Jules Renard

  Women, Shadow, Feminine

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• It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

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  Selfish, Being Selfish, Filled

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.19, Tin House Books

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• A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

  Jules Renard

  Ideas, World Suffering, Causes

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• You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.

  Jules Renard

  Fall, Writing, Dying

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.79, Tin House Books

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