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Madame Depardieu And The Beautiful Strangers QUOTES

Madame Depardieu And The Beautiful Strangers QUOTES

1 " Watching movies simply is a promiscuous experience. The voracity it breeds! That quantity of quiddity compressed and quickened and sent at you! It's a little bit mad, isn't it, to hold a faithful flame for the one you've picked, when no such choice is required of you? The sane response to a rainbow is not to pick your favourite colour. "

― Antonia Quirke , Madame Depardieu And The Beautiful Strangers

2 " Madame Bovary, c'est moi. Emma Bovary. She was the first. The first to thrash around in the space between a packaged wonder and reality, trying to reconcile the two in her enormous, inarticulate heart. Madame Bovary, c'est toi, perhaps, dear reader. Madame Bovary, c'est tout le monde. "

― Antonia Quirke , Madame Depardieu And The Beautiful Strangers

3 " He tells you, more than anyone else, that a body is what a soul looks like, that the way you speak and move is all there is and nothing more need be said. "

― Antonia Quirke , Madame Depardieu And The Beautiful Strangers

4 " Even to know that delight, in a perfect world, would be the proper response to life is a simplicity beyond most of us. "

― Antonia Quirke , Madame Depardieu And The Beautiful Strangers

5 " My first plan was to impress him with the commitment of my reviews. I found out a lot of statistics and waved them at him like breasts at the pub on Thursday. "

― Antonia Quirke , Madame Depardieu And The Beautiful Strangers

6 " Life's a struggle against acting, which claims more lives than all the other drugs of the world put together. "

― Antonia Quirke , Madame Depardieu And The Beautiful Strangers