J.M.G. Le Clézio quote: "The world was a sick animal, a sort of huge cancerous tumour, a thing of bubbling liquids, whitish patches, dribbling pus, fantastic pimples of dead skin that grew in all directions, swelled up, became more and more like fuzzy hair. The right thing would be to go away, to vanish for ever from the face of the sun."

[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?
J.M.G. LE CLéZIO

All words are possible, then, all names. They rain down, all these words, they disintegrate into a p...
J.M.G. LE CLéZIO

You don't mean to say that Hogan has turned into a woman? Why, yes, that's him all right, you can re...
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[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarte...
J.M.G. LE CLéZIO

Looking at the sky, he suddenly saw that it had become black. Then white again, but with great rippl...
J.M.G. LE CLéZIO

The earth is neither fabulous nor paradisal. And therefore it is not hell.
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I thought that to get to know a desert it was enough to have been there. I thought that to have seen...
J.M.G. LE CLéZIO

There is no such thing as self-awareness. Imagine thought retreating into itself to think about itse...
J.M.G. LE CLéZIO

Horror is not unimaginable, it has neither the face of a monster nor the bat-wings of a demon. It is...
J.M.G. LE CLéZIO

Thinking! Thinking! The process should no longer be merely this feeble flurry of hailstones that rai...
J.M.G. LE CLéZIO

He who writes books that aim to convince is a comedian, too, just a comedian. What has he got to off...
J.M.G. LE CLéZIO

I wanted to write an adventure story, not, it's true, I really did. I shall have failed, that's all....
JEAN-MARIE G. LE CLéZIO

La nuit, tout sent bon", disait Mondo.
"C'est parce qu'on ne voit pas", disait Thi Chin.
"...
JEAN-MARIE G. LE CLéZIO

Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.
JEAN-MARIE G. LE CLéZIO

The fact is, that for the Huichol, and for all those who refuse, who are in flight, words and things...
JEAN-MARIE G. LE CLéZIO

Un miros de sărac, un miros de violență, de necesitatea de a parveni.
JEAN-MARIE G. LE CLéZIO

human beings, cans of living preserves
JEAN-MARIE G. LE CLéZIO

The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.
TAN LE

I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.
TAN LE

! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, comput...
TAN LE

You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmen...
TAN LE

I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not ...
TAN LE

America and its demons, Europe and its ghost.
LE MONDE

The losses as well as the prizes must be drawn from the cheating lottery of life.
LE SAGE

Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to disc...
LE CORBUSIER

A house is a machine for living in.
LE CORBUSIER

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
LE CORBUSIER

Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share researc...
TAN LE

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a p...
LE CORBUSIER

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
LE CORBUSIER

The home should be the treasure chest of living.
LE CORBUSIER

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe...
LE CORBUSIER

It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something ...
TAN LE

There are three versions of things: the one you see in your mind, the one that carries onto the pape...
JENNIFER LE

Cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
JENNIFER LE

We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can im...
JENNIFER LE

You follow the rules because you either care about them or you're scared of them.
JENNIFER LE

The death of one will bring sorrow to my soul, but the death of 100? That will only make me think ab...
ALAN LE

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.
LE CORBUSIER

When a book can transport you out of your life and straight into it's story, you know that the autho...
JENNIFER LE

The most beautiful bridge in the world. so pure, so resolute, so regular that here, finally, steel a...
LE CORBUSIER

He ignores you, but somehow you fall for him more every day. He does nothing, but yet that's enough ...
JENNIFER LE

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
LE CORBUSIER

This new trend in our activities will open to all our partners, especially those come from these ter...
HELEN LE

Now we don't have anything. We don't know what to do.
LIEM LE

We thought when we evacuated it would be like before, a couple days and back.
LIEM LE

French citizenship should be either inherited or merited.
MARINE LE PEN

The European Union has become a prison of peoples. Each of the 28 countries that constitute it has s...
MARINE LE PEN

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a ...
JOHN LE CARRE

Do we want a multicultural society, following the model of the English-speaking world, where fundame...
MARINE LE PEN

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a r...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey a...
JOHN LE CARRE

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which ...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be ...
JOHN LE CARRE

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through brib...
JOHN LE CARRE

I chose as the campaign logo a blue rose, which means 'make possible the impossible.' I thin...
MARINE LE PEN

They have acted like carnivores who used the world to enrich only themselves, and whether it's t...
MARINE LE PEN

The British have chosen liberty with Brexit and can congratulate themselves every day.
MARINE LE PEN

Brexit has really broken a taboo. The Brits have shown us that you can leave the European Union, and...
MARINE LE PEN

I would go to the European institutions, I would demand for the French people four sovereignties: te...
MARINE LE PEN

I am the candidate who defends the superiority of politics over the administration, the bureaucracy,...
MARINE LE PEN

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
LE ROI JONES

The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.
GUSTAVE LE BON

The world is full of fools, and he who would not see it should live alone and smash his mirror.
CLAUDE LE PETIT

I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You wou...
JOHN LE CARRé

Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.
MERIDEL LE SUEUR

Crowds exhibit a docile respect for force, And are but slightly impressed by kindness, Which for the...
GUSTAVE LE BON

The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste...
GUSTAVE LE BON

Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the...
GUSTAVE LE BON

Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!
CAL LE MON

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success,...
JOHN LE CARR

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you t...
JOHN LE CARR

People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled -- secure from violent passions or temptati...
EVA LE GALLIENNE

Florida, is Gods waiting room.
GLENN LE GRICE

Innovators are inevitably controversial.
EVA LE GALLIENNE

Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
JOHN LE CARRE

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
MERIDEL LE SUEUR

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
JOHN LE CARRE

A committee is an animal with four back legs.
JOHN LE CARRE

Third act of the eternal play! In poster-like emblazonries "Autumn once more begins today"-- ...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

Stay the course, light a star,Change the world where'er you are.
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then ...
JOHN LE CARRé

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that al...
JOHN LE CARRE

You need to be an adrenalin junkie when you travel with kids.
GRAEME LE SAUX

Clearly, Donald Trump's victory is an additional stone in the building of a new world, destined ...
MARINE LE PEN

My style is definitely schizophrenic; it does change from day to day a lot. It depends on my mood: s...
AMBER LE BON

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

There's something I will say: In the U.S., people are very patriotic. Their patriotism is obviou...
MARINE LE PEN

Everyone can train hard when they are feeling good. But it's the days when you're feeling ba...
CHAD LE CLOS

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you t...
JOHN LE CARRE

How can we think we are protected if terrorists can move around freely, if weapons can circulate fre...
MARINE LE PEN

We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and cr...
GRAEME LE SAUX

The Catholics will never like me because of my divorces.
MARINE LE PEN

When the people want to retake their destiny in hand, they can do it, despite this ceaseless campaig...
MARINE LE PEN

Wild globalisation has benefited some, but it's been a catastrophe for most.
MARINE LE PEN

Whenever I go out with a girl for a meal, I'm recognised, and I hear, 'That's Chad's...
CHAD LE CLOS

I want to set myself as a real legend in the sport, like Phelps and Mark Spitz are remembered worldw...
CHAD LE CLOS

I believe now that I've cemented my spot as the best swimmer in the world, and I can't descr...
CHAD LE CLOS

I'm all about leaving a legacy behind and trying to cement myself as one of the greats. I don...
CHAD LE CLOS

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither,...
JOHN LE CARRE

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody inv...
JOHN LE CARRE

I don't know where I see myself next month let alone five years. My whole life is last minute. I...
AMBER LE BON

The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in...
JOHN LE CARRE

When, in 2015, Greece decided by referendum to reject Brussels' austerity plans, the European Un...
MARINE LE PEN

We, the French, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our value...
MARINE LE PEN

Past leaders chose deregulated globalization. They said it would be happy; it turned out to be atroc...
MARINE LE PEN

Jeanne d'Arc was frowned upon for her masculine attire.
MARINE LE PEN

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
JOHN LE CARRE

I call for the awakening of our people's ancient soul, capable of opposing a bloodthirsty barbar...
MARINE LE PEN

Without any action, this migratory influx will be like the barbarian invasion of the 4th century, an...
MARINE LE PEN

There's a big difference between France and the U.S. In the U.S., immigrants must work to live. ...
MARINE LE PEN

It's true that I have a strong social sensibility, because - bah, because I raised thre children...
MARINE LE PEN

Home's where you go when you run out of homes.
JOHN LE CARRé

Glory is never where virtue is not. [Fr., La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.]
MARTIN LE FRANC

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?
MERIDEL LE SUEUR

I would like to say that the National Front has never been anti-Semitic. Not only am I not anti-Semi...
MARINE LE PEN

2016 was the year the Anglo-Saxon world woke up.
MARINE LE PEN

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
JOHN LE CARRE

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must...
JOHN LE CARRE

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
JOHN LE CARRE

I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin ...
JOHN LE CARRE

In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were de...
JOHN LE CARRE

When Steven Spielberg thinks you're the one, then I'll do anything. If you want me to put a ...
CHARLOTTE LE BON

The merit of 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' then - or its offence, depending where you...
JOHN LE CARRE

Mosques where sharia law prevails - they exist in France. Refusing to see that means that we do equa...
MARINE LE PEN

I keep wondering who defends Quebec identity: who defends sovereignty, the right of the people to ex...
MARINE LE PEN

What I want to say is that nobody is unbeatable. There's a kid out there who probably wants to b...
CHAD LE CLOS

I do not have the slightest bit of racism in me. I do not judge people with regards to the colour of...
MARINE LE PEN

I want to get faster every year, keep my confidence high, so I can continue dominating my main event...
CHAD LE CLOS

In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've t...
GRAEME LE SAUX

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic...
JOHN LE CARRE

I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared persona...
JOHN LE CARRE

I have never tried to bear a judgment against my own father because I consider that, in our European...
MARINE LE PEN

'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end...
JOHN LE CARRE

It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romant...
JOHN LE CARRE

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonst...
JOHN LE CARRE

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

I like to make people laugh. That's for sure. And I really like to humiliate myself and go very ...
CHARLOTTE LE BON

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
JOHN LE CARRE

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
LE ROI JONES

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
MERIDEL LE SUEUR

You ask can we ever trust the Bear?... I will give you several answers at once. The first is no, we ...
JOHN LE CARR

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.
JOHN LE CARRE

We have given away far too many freedoms in order to be free. Now it's time to take some back.
JOHN LE CARRE

Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions ...
JOHN LE CARRE

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success,...
JOHN LE CARRE

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
JOHN LE CARRE

Where deep and misty shadows float In forest's depths is heard thy note. Like a lost spirit, e...
MARIE LE BARON

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and tre...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. ...
GRAEME LE SAUX

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready t...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
JOHN LE CARRE

Voila, we're all molded by our personal paths, which forge our sensibilities.
MARINE LE PEN

I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that eve...
JOHN LE CARRE

It is in the interest of France that the United States and Russia speak to each other and act in goo...
MARINE LE PEN

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, ...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

A tip for looking 'picture perfect' is probably a smile. I think everyone looks better when ...
AMBER LE BON

What is protecting me is that it is not a finality being an actress. I really think we tend to ideal...
CHARLOTTE LE BON

The reality is that Islam is facing a phenomenal rise with regards to fundamentalism. It cannot cont...
MARINE LE PEN

France, land of human rights and freedoms, was attacked on its own soil by a totalitarian ideology: ...
MARINE LE PEN

I am opposed to those who have an ideological vision of immigration, and I think that, given the sit...
MARINE LE PEN

If I can recover the sovereignty, I think Europe will change completely. It will change radically. A...
MARINE LE PEN

I think that in France, we should do like the French people.
MARINE LE PEN

The first obligation is to the French people and establish solidarity among our own citizens.
MARINE LE PEN

When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four son...
JOHN LE CARRE

I do not have the slightest bit of confidence in the European Union to protect the borders of the Eu...
MARINE LE PEN

The euro ceases to exist the moment that France leaves.
MARINE LE PEN

In France, we respect women: we don't beat them; we don't ask them to hide themselves behind...
MARINE LE PEN

Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in ...
JOHN LE CARRE

What they're likely to do is take away the mild and gradual language from the statement.
ADAM LE MESURIER

The exchange rate is again under the spotlight as a wave of protectionist rhetoric rushed through th...
ADAM LE MESURIER

We believe the noise will remain constant, but the signal/noise ratio is clearly falling, as the mac...
ADAM LE MESURIER

Arroyo has been good for the economy. There's a bit of, 'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger,' ...
ADAM LE MESURIER

It's looking more and more that she's able to deal with these kind of threats so over time the marke...
ADAM LE MESURIER

We think the case is building for Asia to become a more independent source of growth for the global ...
ADAM LE MESURIER

Over the next six months, we believe there will likely be confirmation that this recession is deeper...
ADAM LE MESURIER

We would have preferred to see more on interest rates. This 'confidence' crisis has been caused by a...
ADAM LE MESURIER

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average read...
JOHN LE CARRE

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
JOHN LE CARRE

Financial globalisation and Islamist globalisation are helping each other out. Those two ideologies ...
MARINE LE PEN

This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [N...
URBAIN LE VERRIER

Stay the course, light a star,
Change the world where'er you are.
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, ...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

When you say 'radical right' in America, people think Ku Klux Klan. They think of something ...
MARINE LE PEN

I always accessorize with jewelry. I am a bit of a magpie; I love sparkles, and so wearing jewelry m...
AMBER LE BON

I am well placed to know that Le Pen is not an anti-Semite. If one considers his life seriously... a...
MARINE LE PEN

This is the first aspiration of countries: we are the landlords in our countries so that they remain...
MARINE LE PEN

In the '60s - and right up to the present day - the identity of a member of the British Secret S...
JOHN LE CARRE

Soccer was my first love, and I enjoyed playing on the left wing until a groin injury forced me out ...
CHAD LE CLOS

The euro is not a currency. It is a political weapon to force countries to implement the policies de...
MARINE LE PEN

A man who lives a part, not to others but alone, is exposed to obvious psychological dangers. In its...
JOHN LE CARRé

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world
JOHN LE CARRE

After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.
SIMON LE BON

Just watch the interlopers from all over the world come and install themselves in our home. They wan...
MARINE LE PEN

Hillary Clinton means devastation. It means world instability.
MARINE LE PEN

I do believe very much in movie as a one-man-show. I think that where I've watched movie go wron...
JOHN LE CARRE

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee h...
JOHN LE CARRE

For instance, on a small business computer from Hewlett-Packard, the word 'Microsoft' may never appe...
CHRIS LE TOCQ

France has been mired in people's minds for years. In reality, our children are taught that they...
MARINE LE PEN

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

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