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Raymond Queneau quotes: It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

Raymond Queneau quotes: Spiders' teeth are not so long as a torment that cannot be avowed.

Spiders' teeth are not so long as a torment that cannot be avowed.

Raymond Queneau quotes: It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

Raymond Queneau quotes: All societies are historical.

All societies are historical.

Raymond Queneau quotes: The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

Raymond Queneau quotes: A very great Iliad ... concerns the creation of a nation.

A very great Iliad ... concerns the creation of a nation.

Raymond Queneau quotes: Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

Raymond Queneau quotes: Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

Raymond Queneau quotes: Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

Raymond Queneau quotes: After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.

After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.

Raymond Queneau quotes: As the saying goes: time is money- so give me some money to think.

As the saying goes: time is money- so give me some money to think.

Raymond Queneau quotes: One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

Raymond Queneau quotes: It isn't happiness I am concerned with but experience.

It isn't happiness I am concerned with but experience.

Raymond Queneau quotes: He sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination.

He sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination.

Raymond Queneau quotes: There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

Raymond Queneau quotes: The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.

Raymond Queneau quotes: When one made love to zerospheres embraced their archesand prime numbers caught their breath ...

When one made love to zero
spheres embraced their arches
and prime numbers caught their breath ...

Raymond Queneau quotes: The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

Raymond Queneau quotes: True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.

True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.

Raymond Queneau quotes: Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

Raymond Queneau quotes: One must see everything.

One must see everything.

Raymond Queneau quotes: I'll pun him so many puns that even his arrogance will finally be expunged.

I'll pun him so many puns that even his arrogance will finally be expunged.

Raymond Queneau quotes: Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

Raymond Queneau quotes: All confessions are Odysseys.

All confessions are Odysseys.

Raymond Queneau quotes: 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.

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.