It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.

Il est beau d’être un gd écrivain, de tenir les hommes dans la poële à frire de sa phrase et de les y faire sauter comme des marrons

Gustave Flaubert

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Topic

Pleasures of writing Writing

Author

Gustave Flaubert

Source

Letters of Gustave Flaubert

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

French

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Louise Colet. 3 Nov. 1851.

Current Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830-1857, translated and edited by Francis Steegmuller. Faber and Faber, 1981.

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Gustave Flaubert

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Broadening one's horizons Travel

Author

Gustave Flaubert
Source
Letters of Gustave Flaubert
Medium
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Statement Type
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Language
French
Time
1857 1850s 19th century
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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie. c. 1840.

Another quote from the 1850s

Who order'd, that their longing's fire
Should be, as soon as kindled, cool'd?
Who renders vain their deep desire?
A God, a God their severance rul'd!
And bade betwixt their shores to be
The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea.

Matthew Arnold

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Lost love

Author

Matthew Arnold
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1852 1850s 19th century
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Citation

Arnold, Matthew, [published as A]. "To Marguerite." Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852, st. 4.

Another quote about Writing

I asked him one time what type of writing brought the most money and the agent says, "Ransom notes."

Elmore Leonard

Get Shorty (novel)

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Topic
Writing
Speaker
Harry Zimm

Author

Elmore Leonard
Source
Get Shorty (novel)
Medium
Novel
Statement Type
Joke
Language
English
Time
1990 1990s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Leonard, Elmore. Get Shorty. Delacorte Press, 1990, ch. 9.

Another quote originally in French

The body politic, like the human body, begins to die from its birth, and bears in itself the cause of its destruction.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Social Contract

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Topic
Political community Things get worse

Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Source
The Social Contract
Genre
Political literature Philosophical literature
Language
French
Time
1762 1760s 18th century
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Original Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique [On the Social Contract or Principles of Political Law]. Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1762, bk. 3, ch. 11.

Current Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Of the Social Contract." Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings, translated by Quintin Hoare. Penguin Classics, 2012, bk. 3, ch. 11.

Another quote of the following type Metaphor, analogy and simile

Other people's words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to wherever you're going.

Zadie Smith

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Topic
Power of words Language

Author

Zadie Smith
Source
That Crafty Feeling Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
Medium
Essay
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
2010 2010s 21st century
Authentication Score 2
Citation

Smith, Zadie. "That Crafty Feeling." 24 Mar. 2008, Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA. Lecture.