Jules Renard Quotes
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
The bourgeois are other people.
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Words are the small change of thought.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
