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 cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity. – Gustave Flaubert

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Language
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Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature. – Gustave Flaubert

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Nature
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. – Adlai Stevenson, quoted in Ronald D. Fuchs, You Said a Mouthful

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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. – André Gide

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Writing

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler

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Writing

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought? – Joan Didion

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Someones opinion of you does not have to become your reality. – Les Brown

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Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. – Author Unknown

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Usually I say I have no imagination. – Jose Padilha

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Imagination

Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways. – Will Rogers

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