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What do young girls dream of? Of the knife and of blood.

Alain Robbe-Grillet

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Deux me’ tresou un peu plusse parent donc l’homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from a woman.
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Little Man Meter More Separate Two Women
The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.
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Count Nothing Say True Way Write
Memory belongs to the imagination.
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Belong Imagination Memory
The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation – a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion – that it is hard to imagine such an art can survive for long without some radical change.
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Acknowledge Art Critical Discuss Fallen Hard Imagine Novel Opinion Stagnation State Such Survive Whole
the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.
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Absurd Case Meaningful Neither Quite Remarkable Simply World
Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things.
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Belong Computer Human Imagination Memory Record Thing
They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants…
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Defenseless Gangster Holdup Karate Organize Pant Play Practice Racket
It is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.
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Imaginative Invention Process Same Term Thing
Premie’ re approximation: j’e cris pour de truire, en les de crivant avec pre cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d’envahir ma vie e veille e. First general point: I write to destroy, by describing exactly the nocturnal monsters that threaten to invade my waking life.
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Describe Destroy Exactly First Generation Invasive Life Minster Point Threaten Walk
Le lecteur, lui non plus, ne voit pas les choses du dehors. Il est dans le labyrinthe aussi.
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Character Main Outside Reader Work
The reader [as well as the main character] does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.
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Character Labyrinth Main Outside Reader View Well Work
On n’e chappe pas a’ son sort. One cannot escape destiny.
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Destiny Escape Pas Shape Son
To many, the solution seems simple enough: such a change being impossible, the art of the novel is dying.
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Enough Many Seem Simple Solution
There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: ‘You see,’ he says, ‘now that’s formalism.
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Another Country Famous Formalism Hippopotamus Point Zebra
What do young girls dream of? Of the knife and of blood.
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Blood Dream Girl Knife Young
To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be.
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Girl Longer No Tell Truth Used Way

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