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On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.
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I recognized one of the qualities I most admired in my wife: the beautiful big handwriting of the illiterate that she was. Darling,
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My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference ... You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never ...
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.
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When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that's why you love them.
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And then the next fifteen years fell apart: a few blurry faces, a few vague memories, ashes...
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The letters dance before my eyes. Who am I?
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Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.
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It's not a large crowd," he said, "and I have the feeling this wedding party is going to end in an orgy." He shrugged his shoulders.
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No. She told me she was going to marry him, to get French nationality . . . She was obsessed with getting a nationality...
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
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A man without scenery is completely disarmed.
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In those days, I thought I was happy.
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I noticed a phenomenon that doesn't often happen toa man: several women turned round as he passed them. — Patrick Modiano
The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
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On the sidewalk, dead leaves. Or burned pages from an old Gaffiot dictionary. It's the neighborhood of colleges and convents.
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Someone had told him one day that you forget the voices of those whom you have been close to in the past very quickly.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.
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She had the right idea, old man, don't you think - to disappear before it gets too late?
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But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain
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I just have two daughters and a grandson. So not a big family.
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The more obscure and mysterious things remained, the more interested I became in them. I even looked for mystery where there was none.
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One has to be aware of so-called witnesses.
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One should never expect anyone to reply to one's questions.
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People don't come back any more. Haven't you noticed that, Monsieur?
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People certainly lead compartmentalized lives and their friends do not know each other. It's unfortunate.
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One has to retire eventually, Guy.
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All those journeys, those countries where they had monsoons, earthquakes, amoebas and virgin forests, had lost their charm for me.
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You were right to tell me that in life it is not the future which counts, but the past.
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Yes, this man had the persistence of an insect.
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After all, the war doesn't alter my relationship with a blade of grass.
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