Henri de Regnier quotes

Henri de Regnier quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.”
-- Henri de Regnier

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“Women mostly remember the men who made them laugh, and men - only the women who made them cry.”
-- Henri de Regnier

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“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
“Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.”
“It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.”
“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”
“If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.”
“Chess is a beautiful mistress.”
“You donâ€™t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.”
“There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.”
“Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.”
“Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.”

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