Gustave Flaubert Quotes
They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.
Flaubert, Gustave. Bouvard and Pécuchet. Translated by A. J. Krailsheimer, Penguin Books, 1976, p. 74.
Mary Lincoln went to many séances in an attempt to resolve her feelings about her dead son. The President attended at least one.
Mary Lincoln, grieving for her dead son, organized many seances in a desperate attempt to be reunited with her dead son. The President to comfort her attended a few. :Later he made this quip to friends.
This seemingly innocuous quotation became a cause celebre about freedom of speech and separation of church and state. Ms. Nootbaar, a brilliant, straight A student had a theme in her valedictory address of young people not being sure of their future aspirations. The audience laughed at the line and applauded her speech. However, her use of the word “hell” was considered a great sin by the school principle, David Smith. Smith refused to deliver Kaitlin’s diploma unless she apologized, which the young woman refused to do as it would be insincere and that lying would be a sin. Prague is in the middle of the “Bible Belt” where religious fundamentalists want the schools to enforce their view of acceptable behavior and using the word “hell” in that way was cursing and hence a sin. Nootbar was accepted at College anyway and the issue of her entitlement to the diploma went into the legal and political arena.
Gustave Flaubert was an influential French novelist who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), for his Correspondence, and for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer {Guy de Maupassant} was a protégé of Flaubert.
