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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#carrying #dead #france #heard #how

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#like #people #poet #poetry #readers

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#defends #equilibrium #itself #morbid #organism

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#itself #like #moves #novel #time

There's a part of me that looks beyond everything now. ↗

— Andrew Sarris

#everything #looks #me #now #part

But the way that we've got it organized in our family, we try not to work at the same time, so I'm just now starting to look around. I think I'd like to do a film. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#family #film #got #i #i think

I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#doing #get #heterosexual #i #into

I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#anything #good #i #like #obstruction

If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#chance #could #discover #get #go

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#exercise #function #generosity #know #life