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The primary condition for being sincere is the same as for being humble: not to boast of it, and probably not even to be aware of it.

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Writing a novel is not very difficult: you simply write ten pages a day for a month and then you have a novel.

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One of the most considerable achievements of Surrealism was its discovery that many writers and painters of the past had been Surrealists without knowing it.

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There is only one type of decadence which is dangerous in art and literature, and unfortunately critics seldom scourge it as it deserves: it consists in being conventional and imitative, in tritely expressing cheap and superficial emotions.

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Henri Peyre

Henri Peyre

Born: February 21, 1901
Died: December 9, 1988 (aged 87)
Bio: Henri Maurice Peyre was a French-born American, linguist, literary scholar and Sterling Professor of French Emeritus at Yale University.

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