Quotes by Jean-Dominique Bauby

About Jean-Dominique Bauby:

Jean-Dominique Bauby was a well-known French actor, author and editor of the French fashion magazine ELLE. He had two children with Sylvie de la Rochefoucauld, a son named Théophile and a daughter named Céleste.
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Want to play hangman? asks Theophile, and I ache to tell him that I have enough on my plate playing quadriplegic. But my communication system disqualifies repartee: the keenest rapier grows dull and falls flat when it takes several minutes to thrust ...

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In that hothouse atmosphere, criminal records bloomed like orchids all around us.

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Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, ...

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Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.

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I could spend whole days at Cinecittà. There, I am the greatest director of all time. On the town side, I reshoot the close-ups for Touch of Evil. Down at the beach, I rework the dolly shots for Stagecoach, and offshore I re-create the storm rocking...

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I am fading away. Slowly but surely. Like the sailor who watches his home shore gradually disappear, I watch my past recede. My old life still burns within me, but more and more of it is reduced to the ashes of memory.

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Far from such din, when blessed silence returns, I can listen to the butterflies that flutter inside my head. To hear them, one must be calm and pay close attention, for their wingbeats are barely audible. Loud breathing is enough to drown them out. ...

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We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.

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Author Bio

  • NameJean-Dominique Bauby
  • DescriptionFrench journalist, author and editor of the French fashion magazine ELLE
  • BornApril 23, 1952
  • DiedMarch 9, 1997
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionJournalist; Autobiographer; Writer