Odile
A source page for quotes linked to Raymond Queneau.
“Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.”
“The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.”
“Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.”
“One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.”
“The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.”
“It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.”
“Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.”