Boris Vian Quotes


There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.


Citations

Vian, Boris. L'Écume des jours. Gallimard, 1947, Foreword.

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Boris Vian
Boris Vian
  • Born: March 10, 1920
  • Died: June 23, 1959
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Journalist, Engineer, Musician, Songwriter, Singer

Boris Vian was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. Today he is remembered primarily for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release due to their unconventional outlook.