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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

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. – Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
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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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Let’s hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks. – Peter S. Prescott

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Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. – Sholem Asch

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Drink and be filled up. – Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000

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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. – Jorge Luis Borges

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I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. Im glad I was disabused. – Barry Hannah

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Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. – Arthur Baer

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Strength of mind rests in sobriety for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion. – Pythagoras

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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. – George Bernard Shaw

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