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Quote by Gustave Flaubert
An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present ev

An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. – Gustave Flaubert

Other quotes by Gustave Flaubert

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. – Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
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Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. – Gustave Flaubert

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Nature
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As children, some of us liked magic and fantasy, more than reality. So, we became writers. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

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All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear — and devils, too. – Terri Guillemets

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It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order. – Ann Beattie, Picturing Will, 1989

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I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? Its wonderful, isnt it? – Christian Bale

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Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds. – Helen Rowland

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The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy. – Jean Baudrillard

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Forgiveness is the final form of love. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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