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Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

At five-thirty the rain began to fall in great, heavy drops which bounced off the pavement before th...

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L'Enterrement de Monsieur Bouvet

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

The street sprinkler went past and, as its rasping rotary broom spread water over the tarmac, half t...

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Sunday lay so heavily in the air as to become almost nauseating. Maigret used to claim openly, half ...

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I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, ...

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The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communica...

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Savez-vous que c'est à cause de cette recherche de ce que j'appellerais les compensations, cette rec...

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Maigret a peur

The sun finally died in beauty, flinging out its crimson flames, which cast their reflection on the ...

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L'Enterrement de Monsieur Bouvet

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Georges Simenon

Writer

Born: 1903-02-13

Died: 1989-09-04

Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer of crime novels, best known as the creator of Commissaire Maigret. His adult life was largely spent in France, the United States and Switzerland.More