Georges Duhamel Quotes
To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.
Duhamel, Georges. The Heart's Domain. Translated by Eleanor Stimson Brooks, The Century Co., 1919.
In the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, there was concern that U.S. West Coast rainwater might have been radioactively contaminated. The doctor was asked if he would drink West Coast rainwater.
Georges Duhamel was a French author, born in Paris. Duhamel trained as a doctor, and during World War I was attached to the French Army. In 1920, he published Confession de minuit, the first of a series featuring the anti-hero Salavin. In 1935, he was elected as a member of the Académie française. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty-seven times. He was also the father of the musicologist and composer Antoine Duhamel.
