Roussel Quotes

#1. What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

Harry Mathews

#2. Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came.

Peter De Vries

#3. All she had to protect herself against him was silence, the one skill in which she had become an expert.

Sally Gardner

#4. Life creates new heroes, and new heroes always find it easiest to beat up on the previous heroes.

Lech Walesa

#5. My fame will outshine that of Victor Hugo or Napoleon.

Raymond Roussel

#6. My ambition is to not embarrass myself
which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.

David Lipsky

#7. What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner.

Rene Magritte

#8. The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

Eric Sevareid

#9. His face is so calm, He shows no sign of stress or anything. Its as if he's saying, "No problem. Relax. I'm just going to beat you now. It's not going to hurt a bit."

Dominic Roussel

#10. Photography ... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination.

Joan Fontcuberta

#11. Chocolate is like my best friend and the most intense pleasure at the same time, perhaps not the most intense, but the most regular and reliable one.

Chloe Doutre-Roussel