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Nathalie Sarraute Quotes

Russian - Lawyer | July 18, 1900 - October 19, 1999

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Nathalie Sarraute

Television Out Industry Handicraft

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

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Women Writing Up Seen Locked

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

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Suspicion Equilibrium Morbid Organism

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

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Live World Human Steps Human Beings

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.

Nathalie Sarraute

People Admire Some People Complex

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

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Poetry People Write Poet Cannot Who

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

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Good Opportunity Beginning You Write

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

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Myself Me Writing Kind Never Write

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.

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Research Know Everything Happens

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

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Work Good Creative Reading Alive He

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

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Time Arts Like Novel Moves Itself

I have never sought the reason why I write.

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Why Never Write Reason I Write

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