Marcel Proust Quotes

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

Marcel Proust

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922

Topics

TodayMomentTomorrowGraceFashion

I'd like to think that, if I'm unhappy, that I would try and change things so I am happy.

Angourie Rice

ChangeI AmHappyThinkUnhappyTry

Wherever you repress people, they get hold of a crayon and a bit of scrap paper, and they chronicle their lives and their existence and their history.

Michael Horse

HistoryPeopleYouExistenceHold

Artists are supposed to stay hungry.

Michael Connelly

HungryStayArtistsSupposed

There's plenty of juice to keep this economy going.

Steve Forbes

EconomyJuiceKeepGoingPlenty

I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.

Mike Nichols

HumorImpossibleThinkComedyAlways

I kind of idolized older punk-rock and hip-hop bands, and I was, like, 15 when I started the Beastie Boys. And what business did we having doing that at that age?

Mike D

BusinessAgeDoingKindHip-HopDid

There's a certain type of sociopathy to many schemers.

Mitchell Zuckoff

ManyTypeCertain

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

EnergyKnowStrangeReflectAway

I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that happen make for good material. It's not a comfortable truth, but it is true.

Antony Sher

GoodTruthRegretBadDangerousSay

I hate vacations. I hate them. I have no fun on them. I get nothing done. People sit and relax, but I don't want to relax. I want to see something.

Paul Theroux

HateFunPeopleRelaxDoneWant

Government, in many ways, is absolutely going to, if not already has, become irrelevant. It's not going to be in control anymore with the technologies that are coming down the pipe.

Shervin Pishevar

GovernmentControlDownBecomeGoing

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.

Sean Parker

HistoryIntelligenceMeWorldEnd

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