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Georges Simenon
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“Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.”
Georges Simenon (1903–1989) first seen 1955 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed in Paris Review, Summer 1955; reprinted in Malcolm Cowley (ed.) Writers at Work (New York: Viking Press, 1959) p. 146.
“The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.”
Georges Simenon (1903–1989) first seen 1955 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed in Paris Review, Summer 1955; reprinted in Malcolm Cowley (ed.) Writers at Work (New York: Viking Press, 1959) p. 153.
“Fellini, je crois que, dans ma vie, j'ai été plus Casanova que vous! J'ai fait le calcul, il ya un an ou deux. J’ai eu dix mille femmes depuis l’âge de treize ans et demi. Ce n’ést pas du tout un vice. Je n’ai aucun vice sexuel, mais j’avais besoin de communiquer.”
Georges Simenon (1903–1989) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed by Federico Fellini in L'Express, February 21, 1977, and cited from Daniel Golay et al. Simenon, un autre regard (Lausanne: L'Hebdo, 1988) p. 104; translation from Fenton Bresler The Mystery of Georges Simen…
“I never read contemporary fiction – with one exception: the works of Simenon concerned with Inspector Maigret.”
Georges Simenon (1903–1989) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: T. S. Eliot in the Sunday Times, 1952; cited from David Chinitz T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003) p. 56