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I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

Georges Simenon

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Georges Simenon
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: February 13
Died: 1989
Died: September 4
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Writer
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Georges Joseph Christian Simenon
Simenon
Write
Sponge
Littles
Sponges
Little
Squeeze
Writing
Ink
Life
Absorb
Like
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Water
Comes

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I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.
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I have made love to ten thousand women.
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I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
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We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.
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It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.
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If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.
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I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.
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For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.
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If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.
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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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