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Georges Simenon Quotes

1903–1989 Belgium

Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer of crime novels, best known as the creator of Commissaire Maigret. His adult life was largely spent in France, the United States and Switzerland.

Belgium
Novelists

Also known as: Simenon

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Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

She came forward like a film star, or rather like the ideal woman in an adolescent’s dream.

La Nuit du carrefour (1931)

The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Georges Simenon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.