Raymond Queneau Quotes
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A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.
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After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.
[Accomplished]
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All confessions are Odysseys.
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All societies are historical.
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Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.
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It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
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It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.
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It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.
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Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.
[Education]
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Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.
[Work]
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Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
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Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
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The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
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The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.
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The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
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There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
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To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.
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Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
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We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.
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