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A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.

john kenneth galbraith

— Chapter 13, Section V, p. 155

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He had never read Proust , but he had somehow taken a short cut across the allotments and arrived at the same conclusions.

Alan Bennett

— "Russell Harty, 1934 – 1988", p. 52 (1988)

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Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.

Marcel Proust

— Graham Greene, as quoted in Sollars, Jennings, The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel: 1900 to the Present (2008), p. v

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A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.

italo svevo

— Paul Bailey, in The Independent, September 24, 1999. [1]

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Even Morgan seems to me to be based on some hidden rock. Talking of Proust and Lawrence he said he'd prefer to be Lawrence; but much rather would be himself. He is aloof, serene, a snob, he says, reading masterpieces only.

virginia woolf

— Tuesday 18 September 1923

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