Proust Questionnaire Quotes

#1. Most of the awesome people I know are just normal people who were insanely driven.

Jason Ellis

#2. To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.

Simone Weil

#3. 'He is very ugly,' said his mother.

Taylor Caldwell

#4. Bangalore has become a centre for healthcare.

Geoff Mulgan

#5. I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

Carrie Fisher

#6. It's like I'm married to the silencer,
Until I file for divorce and release my ex-calibers.
Do art with your arteries, place that for my adversaries,
Put your snap back cap back, cap your capillaries.

Pharoahe Monch

#7. What do you most value in your friends?
Their continued existence.

Christopher Hitchens

#8. So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.

Gayle Forman

#9. Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.

Erica Jong

#10. The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it.

Don DeLillo

#11. The man who joins with youths stays young in heart and mind. In exchange for the gift of their vitality and eagerness, the mature of man can give guidance and trust, a sympathetic ear and helping hand.

Henry Clausen