(From Boulez, an authorized biography by Joan Peyser)

At the chapel door he [a priest associated with a school Boulez attended] asked me if what he had been told was true: that Boulez no longer believed in God. I said it was...

Pierre Boulez

Tags: atheism atheist french composer conductor

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There is no good word for stomach; just as there is no good word for girlfriend. Stomach is to girlfriend as belly is to lover, and as abdomen is to consort, and as middle is to petite amie.

Nicholson Baker

Tags: food sex french organs

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They pronounced my name wrong. There is a difference between Ruse and Rusé. I’m not a trick, I’m a crafty one. I perform the tricks.

Zechariah Barrett

Tags: humor french

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You owe it to your loved ones as well as yourself to know and pursue your pleasures.

Mireille Guiliano

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Give us being and feeling over having any day.

Mireille Guiliano

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Vénérons le chien. Le chien (quel drôle de bête!), a sa sueur sur sa langue et son sourire dans sa queue.

Victor Hugo

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...What do you do with all your money?"
"Me and the French hoard gold.

Dashiell Hammett

Tags: humor money gold funny french hoarding

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I wish I could say he was a French professor, a French chef, or even a bilingual tutor, but I can’t. He worked in a factory and spent his summer evenings at a reenactment village as a blacksmith or something equally masculine. But it didn’t really matter. He was the kind of man I had dreamt of, one who could bring a touch of the exotic to my small-town existence. (No doubt he would make love as passionately as he spoke French.)

Chila Woychik

Tags: love writing french rats exotic beret

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It is time to buddle (scrub in water) all that is not illutile (unwash-awayable). Baudelaire said that humans were deluded if they thought they could wash away all their spots with vile tears, but Baudelaire was French and therefore knew nothing about hygiene or shower gel.

Mark Forsyth

Tags: humor french baudelaire sarcasm-humor the-horologicon

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I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.

Napoléon Bonaparte

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