Quotes by Maurice Druon

About Maurice Druon:

Maurice Druon was a French novelist and a member of the Académie française, of which he served as “Perpetual Secretary” (chairman) between 1985 and 1999.
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Grimalkin yawned and licked his whiskers. 'Not dead,' he replied. 'Hardly dead. But she changed her name and appearance so many times, even the oldest fey would hardly remember her. She likes to keep a low profile, you know.' Puck frowned, knitting h...

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Who knows what goes on in the mind of a cat?

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Human?' The girl cocked her head the other way. I caught a glimpse of pink gills under her chin. 'My sisters told me stories of humans. They said they sometimes sing to them to lure them underwater.' She grinned, showing off her sharp needle-teeth. '...

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Every man believes to some extent that the world began when he was born and, at the moment of leaving it, suffers at having to let the Universe remain unfinished.

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The Nevernever is dying, human. It grows smaller and smaller every decade. Too much progress, too much technology. Mortals are losing their faith in anything but science. Even the children of man are consumed by progress. They sneer at the old storie...

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Iron. Ice. A Love Doomed From the Start

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Scott Waldron.' 'What?' Robbie's lip curled in a glimace of disgust. 'The jockstrap? Why, does he need you to teach him how to read?' I scowled at him. 'Just because he's captain of the football team doesn't mean you can be a jerk. Or are you jealous...

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Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles off and put them in a jar. Understand?

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Bravo," said Grimalkin, peering down from Cold Tom's chest. "The Winter prince and Oberon's jester agreeing on something. The world must be ending.

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I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment.

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Oh, we're playing nice now? Shall we have tea first? Brew up a nice pot of kiss-my-ass?

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Oh that looked painful," called another Puck, a little farther down. "We really need to talk about your anger-management problems.

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Leaving would imply suitcases and empty drawers, and late birthday cards with ten-dollar bills stuffed inside.

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As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we.

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The faery lords are immortal. Those who have songs ballads and stories written about them never die. Belief worship imagination we were born of the dreams and fears of mortals and if we are remembered even in some small way we will always exist.

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You made me feel alive again.

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Eventually we will all wither and die in the wasteland of logic and science.

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Science is all about proving theories and understanding the universe. Science folds everything into neat logical well-explained packages. The fey are magical capricious illogical and unexplainable. Science cannot prove the existence of faeries so nat...

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My name is Ferrum. I was the first, born of the forges, when mankind first began to experiment with iron. I rose from their imagination, from their ambition to conquer the world with a metal that could slice through bronze like paper. I was there whe...

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Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!

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Author Bio

  • NameMaurice Druon
  • DescriptionFrench writer
  • BornApril 23, 1918
  • DiedApril 14, 2009
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionPolitician; Writer
  • Works
  • AwardsGrand Cross Of The Legion Of Honour; Commandeur Des Arts Et Des Lettres?; Prix Goncourt; Knight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Prince Pierre Foundation