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Georges Simenon quotes: Madame ... gloatingly savored her words as earlier she had savored her pig's trotter.

Madame ... gloatingly savored her words as earlier she had savored her pig's trotter.

Georges Simenon quotes: If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

Georges Simenon quotes: I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

Georges Simenon quotes: I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

Georges Simenon quotes: I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

Georges Simenon quotes: A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.

A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.

Georges Simenon quotes: For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals,

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals,

Georges Simenon quotes: One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

Georges Simenon quotes: I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

Georges Simenon quotes: We are all potentially characters in a novelwith the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

We are all potentially characters in a novel
with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

Georges Simenon quotes: The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

Georges Simenon quotes: I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

Georges Simenon quotes: We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

Georges Simenon quotes: It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

Georges Simenon quotes: Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

Georges Simenon quotes: I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

Georges Simenon quotes: I have made love to ten thousand women.

I have made love to ten thousand women.

Georges Simenon quotes: If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

Georges Simenon quotes: Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.