Gustave Flaubert Quotes

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Gustave Flaubert

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: December 12, 1821 - May 8, 1880

Topics

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I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce or in beer with paprika.

Jim Himes

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Science is a quest for understanding.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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The values we developed were instrumental in gaining a competitive advantage.

John Collison

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A pompadour is actually pretty easy for me; it takes me about five minutes.

Andra Day

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I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.

Ann Bancroft

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Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!

Michael Flatley

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Acting is way of making yourself exist.

Stephen Rea

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When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes, they go looking for more like it - until they get tired of it again.

Stanley Schmidt

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And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.

Robert Walpole

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Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles.

Rona Barrett

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In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and it's just dumb. I think the only way of maintaining some of that mystique is by not giving away too much about yourself. It has served me well so far. I never want to feel up for grabs.

Miranda Richardson

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My first three-sisters novel in a while, 'Sandcastles' tells the story of the Sullivan family - two passionate artists and their three wildly different daughters. There's also a renegade nun and a mystery man, but I don't want to give too much away!

Luanne Rice

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