Claude Simon quotes
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“To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.”
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“For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.”
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“Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art.”
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“There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality.' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae.”
-- Claude Simon -
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“In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P. Sartre wrote: 'Any anti-communist is a dog.'”
-- Claude Simon
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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“Your beliefs and perceptions determine the boudaries of your world.”
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