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“... remorse, marriage and (headiest of all, for Stendhal) incarceration.Like Laforgue or Nerval or Colette, Stendhal is a limit case because his fiction strays into and emerges from fugitive personal spaces: diaries, letters, travel narratives. His oeuvres intimes are stories without shells, and his attempt to overcome the plotlessness of life is their ...”

“... onomatopoeia, looking like the thing she described, she almost purred as she read a passage from Colette about the life of a cat. Unlike many designers, Lagerfeld actually liked models. He particularly liked actresses. Vanessa Paradis suggested he could set your personality free, Monica Bellucci said something similar, and one could see him, even in ...”

“... It doesn’t happen very much or very plausibly the other way round, not in life or in books. Even Colette, who pioneered the notion of the young man and the older woman, makes Léa give Chéri up for a biologically-appropriate wife. ‘Men,’ man-in-the-news Iron John Bly reports, ‘are more lonesome in every generation.’ In the last few days, as I’ve ...”

“... during six months by a backlist of Seeker foreign authors including Mishima, Moravia, Svevo, Gide, Colette, Kafka, Thomas Mann, Grass, Böll and half a dozen others, found that the whole lot added up to half Orwell’s earnings in the same period. New editions of four books have just been published, said to be ‘authoritative texts’ although in some the ...”

“... relationship with Peter was very close. Our families had met and my wife Catherine and Colette Fuller were friends. We found a field south of London, not far out, surrounded by trees and with a stream in which the children could paddle while the adults ate, drank, talked and snoozed. Peter’s subsequent enthusiasm for nature was always undermined ...”

“... Antonia White died in 1980 leaving behind four novels, over thirty translations (mainly Colette), two books about cats, some stories and a piece of autobiography. She also left two daughters (Susan Chitty and Lyndall Hopkinson) and more than a million words of diaries – work that some consider her greatest achievement, and the editing of which led to a public row (and legal action) between the girls, who disagreed about what kind of woman their mother was ...”

“... She also kept gin in a beautiful set of painted bottles in her bathroom. In 1954, Colin and Colette became aware that their mother had become even more dependent on alcohol than she had been on her puffer. This was the year in which she had her first fall from inebriation. For years she could begin the day with two to four martinis, follow it with a ...”

“... his infatuation at the age of ten with a Biarritz playmate, a little French girl whom he calls Colette) are straight autobiography and were published as such in Speak, Memory. ‘Orache’ is a rearrangement of incidents told rather more successfully in Chapter 9 of the same book. The last story, ‘Lance’, deals with a couple named ‘Boke’, a ...”

“... gorgeous clothes which success has brought her way. She shares many features with other idols – Colette and Callas, Garland, and even Monroe. I am not proposing that Emin has shaped her tale consciously to fit modern myths. Not at all. But it is one of the reasons her art has caught the popular imagination so powerfully. It is also the reason her audience ...”

“... women of her generation – Woolf being the glorious exception. Think of Hannah Arendt. Or of Colette, who once declared that women who were so stupid as to want the vote deserved ‘the whip and the harem’. (La Vagabonde, her novel-manifesto about a woman choosing her career and a single life over the love of a worthy man and emotional dependence, was ...”

“... the Précieuses, sounds like the old ‘virility’ all over again, let a French woman writer, Colette, say it: ‘I adore words that are complicated to spell.’ And I, as Bishop Bossuet might have ...”

“... polished, with a chauffeur to match.’ This haughty poule de luxe straight out of a novel by Colette finishes up exactly like Chéri’s mistress enjoying her retirement in ‘a house with many shutters, Venetian blinds and lace curtains so that no one will ever see me and everyone will know my time is done.’ To be a great tart you have to invent ...”

“... time he was writing short stories – up to seven a day – for newspapers and magazines; in 1924 Colette, then the literary editor of Le Matin, took him on as a regular contributor; in the same year he published his first pulp novel, most of which was written in the course of a morning while sitting on a café terrace. This genre proved more profitable, and ...”

“... I now know, not from the authors, who the source of this statement is. When I named Miss Colette Bowe in the House, I did so in the knowledge that she was acting on ministerial and indeed prime ministerial instructions, and that her career was therefore protected. I am not, however, prepared to name the source quoted here as they were not acting on ...”

“... New Directions paperbacks, mostly poetry by people like H.D. or Denise Levertov. There were the Colette novels she read on the sly. There was the first edition of Couples, belonging to her mother, which Madeleine had surreptitiously dipped into back in sixth grade and which she was using now to provide textual support in her English honours thesis on the ...”