Patrick Modiano Quotes

Something happens between a novel and its reader which is similar to the process of developing photographs, the way they did it before the digital age. The photograph, as it was printed in the darkroom, became visible bit by bit. As you read your way through a novel, the same chemical process takes place.

Patrick Modiano

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: July 30, 1945

Topics

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I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

Michael Jackson

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No one can ban me or stop me from acting.

Shilpa Shinde

MeActingStopBan

I think my broadcast partner Mike Gorman said it best. He said there's a generation of fans who know me as a player and there's a generation of fans who know me as a coach and now there's a generation of fans who think I'm Shrek!

Tom Heinsohn

BestMePartnerThinkGeneration

I served my country; I did that. I was in the C.I.A., and I served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I love this country with every part of my body, and I was willing to risk my body and my family for it. But I wake up in a country I don't understand anymore.

Tom King

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If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?

Tom Snyder

AnimalsEatMeatOutComeMade

Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change.

Mitch Kapor

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The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety.

Joseph Prince

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I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

Dick Cavett

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I can be a tennis player, a golf player, and even a soccer player.

Deontay Wilder

GolfSoccerI CanTennisEven

Usually, whenever my mom would come over I would try and put on music that I thought she would like just to make her feel more at ease.

Britt Daniel

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To be honest, when you grow up in the music business, people heard me sing from a young age, and you get offered development deals and things like that.

Aubrie Sellers

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