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Henri Peyre Quotes

1901–1988 United States

Henri Maurice Peyre (21 February 1901 – 9 December 1988) was an American linguist and literary scholar of French origin.

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Random Henri Peyre quote

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Writing a novel is not very difficult: you simply write ten pages a day for a month and then you have a novel.

The primary condition for being sincere is the same as for being humble: not to boast of it, and probably not even to be aware of it.

Literature and Sincerity (1963)

One of the most considerable achievements of Surrealism was its discovery that many writers and painters of the past had been Surrealists without knowing it.

Cohn Existentialism (1948)

There is only one type of decadence which is dangerous in art and literature, and unfortunately critics seldom scourge it as it deserves: it consists in being conventional and imitative, in tritely expressing cheap and superficial emotions.

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