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Quote by Edmond de Goncourt

“People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.”

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French writer, co-founder of the naturalist literary movement with his brother Jules de Goncourt. Their works are known for their detailed psychological descriptions and profound insights into social reality. more

“I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather than trying to talk or do a costume change, I'll use those moments for myself. I listen to what other people are playing, or just rest, or dance, even though I don't know how to.”

People Thinking Knows Way Trying Moments Use Shows Used Song Know How Comfortable Used To Be Uncomfortable Pauses Costumes

Author:Fiona Apple

“I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.”

“The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.”

Individual Nations Honest Contrary Crooked

Author:Edmond de Goncourt

“Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.”

People Giving Hands Fate Fortune Legs Bedroom Gloves Slippers

Author:Theophile Gautier

“I am a man for whom the outside world exists.”

Men World Ego Outside World

Author:Theophile Gautier

“I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.”

Author:Theophile Gautier

“Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.”

Beautiful Process Materials Verses Marble

Author:Theophile Gautier

“A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.”

World Imagine Built

Book:Out of silence: selected poems

Source: Out of silence: selected poems

“Exchange is creation.”

Creation

Author:Muriel Rukeyser

“Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.”

Thinking Desire Culture Speak Term Dying Repeats Quarrels Projection

Author:Muriel Rukeyser

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