Laurent Binet Quotes & Sayings

Prudently, night flees the scene. — Laurent Binet

Memory is of no use to the remembered, only to those who remember. We build ourselves with memory and console ourselves with memory. — Laurent Binet

Sometimes, after all, there is a bit of justice in this mean, cruel world. — Laurent Binet

I'm fighting a losing battle. I can't tell this story the way it should be told. This whole hotchpotch of characters, events, dates, and the infinite branching of cause and effect - and these people, these real people who actually existed. I'm barely able to mention a tiny fragment of their lives, their actions, their thoughts. I keep banging my head against the wall of history. And I look up and see, growing all over it - ever higher and denser, like a creeping ivy - the unmappable pattern of causality. — Laurent Binet

He downs the contents of his glass in a single gulp and, looking at Simon, adds: "This is as amusing as a novel. — Laurent Binet

This scene is not really useful, and on top of that I practically made it up. I don't think I'm going to keep it. — Laurent Binet

That scene, like the one before it, is perfectly believable and totally made up — Laurent Binet

Spinoza fucks Hegel up the arse! Spinoza fucks Hegel up the arse! Down with dialectics! — Laurent Binet

The homosexuals are the new Jesuits. — Laurent Binet

No, it's not invented! What would be the point of 'inventing' Nazism? — Laurent Binet

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Gabcik - tht's his name - really did exist — Laurent Binet

It's risky to try to determine the moments when a person's life is changed forever. I don't even know if such moments exist. — Laurent Binet

He liked cock, this intellectual! — Laurent Binet

So, to cut a long story short, they jumped. — Laurent Binet

If Barthes, along with Bachelard, is one of those who have done most to enrich criticism during the last thirty years, it is not as a theoretician of a still hazy semiology, but as the champion of a new pleasure in reading. — Laurent Binet

In the provinces, being queer is worse than being Arab. — Laurent Binet

How many forgotten heroes sleep in history's great cemetery? — Laurent Binet

Glory to the logos, my friends! Long live dialectics! Let the party begin! May the verb be with you! — Laurent Binet

The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism. — Laurent Binet

What would you do if you ruled the world?" The gigolo replied that he would abolish all laws. Barthes said: "Even grammar? — Laurent Binet

You had to choose between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor. You will have war. — Laurent Binet