29 Quotes by Julien Green

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

A dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me.

Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does.

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

Thought flies and words go on foot.