Top 35 Raymond Queneau Quotes
#1. The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
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#2. The really inspired person is never inspired: he's always inspired: he doesn't go looking for inspiration and he doesn't get up in arms about artistic technique.
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#3. There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
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#4. We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.
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#5. His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with themselves. At such intersections we always encounter what we have already seen.
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#6. Spiders' teeth are not so long as a torment that cannot be avowed.
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#7. Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.
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#8. Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.
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#9. As the saying goes: time is money- so give me some money to think.
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#12. When one made love to zero
spheres embraced their arches
and prime numbers caught their breath ...
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#13. It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.
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#14. Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.
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#15. It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
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#16. True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.
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#17. The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.
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#19. He wanted to be content with an identity nicely chopped into pieces of varying lengths, but whose character was always similar, without dyeing it in autumnal colors, drenching it in April showers or mottling it with the instability of clouds.
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#20. After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.
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#21. To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.
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#22. A very great Iliad ... concerns the creation of a nation.
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#23. The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.
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#25. It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.
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#26. When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
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#27. He sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination.
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#28. Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
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#29. It isn't happiness I am concerned with but experience.
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#30. Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.
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#31. One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
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#32. The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
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#33. I'll pun him so many puns that even his arrogance will finally be expunged.
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#34. Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.
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#35. Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.
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