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Gustave Flaubert Quotes

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Gustave Flaubert

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Stupidity Democracy Dream Level

The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.

Eyes Best Words Lie Liars Rather

'Dad, Dad, I'm getting married.' 'Sh-sh, don't say it. Nothing, nothing. Don't do anything.' So he honestly - 'cause he was taught don't celebrate - they'll take it away from you. And his parents were taught that, and his parents and parents' parents. Because if you did celebrate, and you were visible, it could be very, very dangerous.

Parents Celebrate You Dangerous Say

Luck's always to blame.

Jean de La Fontaine

Luck Blame Always

When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way.

Writing Feel Trying Place Sometimes

Quentin Tarantino is my 15-year-old son's favorite director, and by that I mean no condescension to either Tarantino or my 15-year-old son.

Son Mean Director Favorite Either

I should never have left Italy and Juve.

Never Left Italy Should

Especially with someone like me, my family know how much I push myself to the absolute limit.

Family Myself Me Push Someone Know

I did three television shows in Poughkeepsie in one day, with Adrian Adonis and The Iron Sheik. They gave us no food.

Food Day Television Three One Day

My career was prematurely launched. I didn't have a plan.

Plan Career Prematurely

Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.

Michelle Trachtenberg

Work Hard Work Morning Discipline

My Olympic moment from the individual event was that I was really able to enjoy my skating, and so that meant a lot to me, and I didn't portray that accurately.

Moment Me Enjoy Skating Individual

Do nothing which is of no use.

Miyamoto Musashi

Nothing Use Which

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