4 Quotes by Marcel Benabou

As a child, at the age when others promise to be Chateaubriand or nothing, I had written that I would be myself or nothing. I had certainly not foreseen that one day I would find myself in the position of being both myself and nothing. 65

[It's] long been known that making fun of oneself is only a way of taking oneself seriously slightly less crude than others. 97

Thus I discovered that if one is the least bit welcoming in one’s treatment of it, a word never comes alone. It brings along with it all those that belong to its clan... 102.

I long believed that one was born a writer, that it was enough to allow to ripen within oneself for an appropriate number of years this precious seed, and that then one day the first book would appear, as had earlier, at the appointed hour, the first tooth. 53.