Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned."
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Proust
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Francoise Sagan
Author
"After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent."
Jean Cocteau
Poet, Novelist, Playwright
"Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting."
Italo Svevo
Novelist
"A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism."
Truman Capote
Author, Journalist
"I'm sure Proust was a big bore."
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"I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place."
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"You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was Hemingway who celebrated life and also wrote a masterpiece."
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"Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth."
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