Meursault Quotes

#1. Just read this fabulous screenplay. A remake of Camus's The Stranger with Meursault as a bi break-dancing punk rocker. Randy showed it to me. I loved it. Randy thinks "basically unfilmable" and that filming an orange rolling around a parking lot for three hours would draw a bigger audience.

Bret Easton Ellis

#2. We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun, and the double silence of the flute and the water. It was then that I realized that you could either shoot or not shoot.

Albert Camus

#3. People always have exaggerated ideas about unfamiliar things'. - Meursault

Albert Camus

#4. It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed.

Irvine Welsh

#5. The thing about a marine is that they can be the nicest men and women you will ever meet, but when it comes to their duty there are none fiercer.

Joshua Mcnutt

#6. The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.

Adolf Loos

#7. Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.

Robert Mankoff

#8. At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

Albert Camus

#9. If it doesn't work horizontally as prose ... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.

Robert Breault

#10. No one talked about the questions, because talking ruined plausible deniability. Talking burst the bubble of innocence. Talking ended the happily ever after. These were the truths they believed. And they were lies. They should have talked while there was still something to say.

Courtney C. Stevens

#11. Brain is the only sword of the peaceable man and sword is the only brain of the violent man!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. An animated conversation was in progress and the woman behind the counter started airing her views about a murder case that had created some stir in Algiers. A young commercial employee had killed an Algerian on a beach.

Albert Camus