Quotes by Georges Simenon - Page 1

I have made love to ten thousand women.
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Made
Sex
Thousand
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A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.
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Men
Mother
Novelists
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I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood.
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Pieces
Sculpture
Woods
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Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
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Profession
Unhappiness
Vocation
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I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.
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Brain
Writing
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The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
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Nature
Lakes
Mountain
Real
Real World
World
Become
Mountains
Lake
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We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them
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I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.
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Men
Parades
Saws
Contemplate
Mussolini
Parade
Thousands
Tirelessly
Young Men
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For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.
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Criminals
Understood
Years
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I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
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Adore
Fear Of Death
Late
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I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
Georges Simenon / Writer
Death
Adore
Late
Life Death Fear
Die
Prefer
Possible
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Madame....gloatingly savored her words as earlier she had savored her pig's trotter.
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I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.
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Home
Never Quit
Stranger
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If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.
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Happiness
Justice
Whole
World
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I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
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Abstract
Earth
Simple
Writing
Simple Way
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If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.
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Kind
Vision
World
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Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
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Artist
Thinking
Writing
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One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.
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Communication
Example
Problem
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Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.
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Allowing
Give Me
Giving
Hands
Light
Regard
Desk
Gently
Rises
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It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.
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Decision
Long
Moments
Natural
Though
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We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.
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Character
Differences
Novel
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I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.
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Ink
Water
Writing
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The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.
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New York
Lazy
Night
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And Boucard desisted, probably because like everyone else he was deeply impressed by this man who had laid all ghosts, who had lost all shadows, and who stared you in the eyes with cold serenity.
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Men
Eye
Serenity
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The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world
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Communication
People
Two
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The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.
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Communication
Impossible
Millions
Tragic
Impossible World Me
Complete
Millions Of People
Themes
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It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.
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Calm
Lakes
Moon
Night
Reflecting
Lake
Looked
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I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.
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Age
Brother
Character
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