How Proust Can Change Your Life Quotes

#1. In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it ... a wild book.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#2. Every person falls down at some point. Successful people choose to get back up!

Dave Ramsey

#3. The more time I spend with you lot, the more I wonder if you forget to shift your brains from stone," she added with a grin.
Gavin laughed. "Not our brains. Our cocks maybe.

Lisa Carlisle

#4. Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

Alain De Botton

#5. Youth is a clearer witness to the world.

Anthony Lane

#6. Coercing a woman out of a burka is as bad as coercing her into one. It's not about the burka. It's about the coercion.

Arundhati Roy

#7. I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.

Spike Lee

#8. Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

Judith Guest

#9. There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda Saraswati

#10. I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. You need people around you who will tell you the truth and not hold anything back.

Nev Schulman

#12. I think you gotta be who you want to be until you feel like you are whoever it is you're trying to become. Sometimes half of doing something is pretending that you can.

Julie Murphy

#13. The move is there, but you must see it.

Savielly Tartakower

#14. Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.

Annie Proulx