20 Quotes by Alain Robbe-Grillet

  • Author Alain Robbe-Grillet
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    The word “avant-garde,” for example, despite its note of impartiality, generally serves to dismiss-as though by a shrug of the shoulders-any work that risks giving a bad conscience to the literature of mass consumption.

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  • Author Alain Robbe-Grillet
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    The writer must proudly consent to bear his own date, knowing that there are no masterpieces in eternity, but only works in history, and that they survive only to the degree that they have left the past behind them and heralded the future.

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