Author of quotes: Edmond and Jules Goncourt

A story is a novel that was, a novel is a story that could have been.

When unbelief becomes faith, it is more ridiculous than religion.

The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore - the natural enemy of a respectable woman.

Laughter is the physiognomy of the mind.

Close when you see people applaud you, it begins to seem that people who osvistannaya you, maybe not so stupid.

Shyness is only a nervous phenomenon. All nervous people shy. Modesty nothing to do with it.