Top 32 Georges Simenon Quotes

#1. It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.

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#2. I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

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#3. We are all potentially characters in a novel
with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

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#4. We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

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#5. A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.

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#6. If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

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#7. The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.

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#8. The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.

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#9. I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

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#10. It was the serene cheerfulness of a man who has no nightmares, who feels at peace with himself and everyone else. They [Americans] were almost all of them like that. And it definitely got Maigret's back up. It made him think of clothing that was too neat, too clean, too well-pressed.

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#11. I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

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#12. I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

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#13. Sunday lay so heavily in the air as to become almost nauseating. Maigret used to claim openly, half seriously, half in fun, that he had always had the knack of sensing a Sunday from his bed, without even having to open his eyes.

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#14. Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

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#15. His mouth open, he fell asleep, because a man always falls asleep in the end. One weeps, one shrieks, one rages, one despairs, and then one eats and sleeps as if nothing had happened.

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#16. It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

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#17. I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

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#18. She came forward, the outlines of her figure blurred in the half-light. She came forward like a film star, or rather like the ideal woman in an adolescent's dream.

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#19. And Boucard desisted, probably because like everyone else he was deeply impressed by this man who had laid all ghosts, who had lost all shadows, and who stared you in the eyes with cold serenity.

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#20. The poor are used to stifling any expression of their despair, because they must get on with life, with work, with the demands made of them day after day, hour after hour.

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#21. He had read endless books, he had digested them, pondered over them. Day by day, year after year, he had turned over all the problems of human beings. Yet there were all sorts of simple things he didn't know how to do: he couldn't even walk into an inn and sit down at a table.

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#22. He now understood deathbed dramas. Everybody thinks about death. But only one person thinks about it for himself. The others know that in the morning the sun will come through the blinds and their coffee will be served." From "The Reckoning

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#23. For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals,

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#24. I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

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#25. Madame ... gloatingly savored her words as earlier she had savored her pig's trotter.

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#26. They never addressed each other by name, nor were they in the habit of exchanging endearments. What was the point, since both felt that, in many ways, they were one person?

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#27. The change in the girl's face was more subtle, almost invisible; it was not joy, there was no sparkle, but something like a serene contentment. It was as though she had ripened, as though there were a growing plenitude in her, never there before.

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#28. Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

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#29. One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

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#30. The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

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#31. If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

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#32. I have made love to ten thousand women.

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