Balzac
Speech parts
1. Balzac - Noun
2. Balzac - Proper noun
Meaning
French novelist; he portrays the complexity of 19th century French society (1799-1850)
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Examples
It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live; and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain.
I don't have to be a gentleman,” said Balzac. "I am an artist.
Writing should never be allowed to become a substitute for living. Style cannot breath in a void. It should not be forgotten that Dickens was at one time a reporter, Balzac a lawyer's clerk and Tchekov a county doctor. Art is different from life but cannot exist without it.
Balzac says that many young husbands are so ignorant of women that they make him think of orang-outangs trying to play the violin.
Balzac was right.... There is tremendous jealousy about money.
I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.