Quotes by Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio, The Book of Flights

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I thought that to get to know a desert it was enough to have been there. I thought that to have seen the dogs dying alon — Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio, The Book of Flights
Real lives have no end. Real books have no end. — Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio, The Book of Flights
[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce — Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio, The Book of Flights
He who writes books that aim to convince is a comedian, too, just a comedian. What has he got to offer others, apart fro — Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio, The Book of Flights
All words are possible, then, all names. They rain down, all these words, they disintegrate into a powdery avalanche. Be — Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio, The Book of Flights
I wanted to write an adventure story, not, it's true, I really did. I shall have failed, that's all. Adventures bore me. — Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio, The Book of Flights
Horror is not unimaginable, it has neither the face of a monster nor the bat-wings of a demon. It is calm and tranquil, — Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio, The Book of Flights
There is no such thing as self-awareness. Imagine thought retreating into itself to think about itself. It would be easi — Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio, The Book of Flights
You don't mean to say that Hogan has turned into a woman? Why, yes, that's him all right, you can recognize him by the f — Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio, The Book of Flights
Thinking! Thinking! The process should no longer be merely this feeble flurry of hailstones that raises a little dust. I — Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio, The Book of Flights
The earth is neither fabulous nor paradisal. And therefore it is not hell. — Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio, The Book of Flights
[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying? — Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio, The Book of Flights