“We have a tendency to imagine people the way we would like them to be.”
Source: Maigret Hesitates
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Famous Georges Simenon Quotes
Source: Maigret and the Killer
Source: My Friend Maigret
Source: The Train
Source: The Engagement
“Oh, by the way, while I was having a glass of your delicious gueuze beer, I spotted a crook…”
Source: The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien
“I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood.”
Source: Georges Simenon: An Interview on the Art of Fiction
“We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them”
Source: Georges Simenon: An Interview on the Art of Fiction
“The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.”
Source: Georges Simenon: An Interview on the Art of Fiction
“I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.”
“I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.”
“For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.”
“If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.”
Source: Georges Simenon: An Interview on the Art of Fiction
“I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.”
“I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.”
Source: Georges Simenon: An Interview on the Art of Fiction
“I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.”
Source: Georges Simenon: An Interview on the Art of Fiction
“If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.”
“Madame....gloatingly savored her words as earlier she had savored her pig's trotter.”