Gustave Flaubert Quotes
You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
Flaubert, Gustave. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1857-1880. Selected, edited, and translated by Francis Steegmuller, Harvard University Press, 1982, p. 89.
Johnson, a retired General was very conservative and old fashioned. The saddle sores comment harkens back to the Army in the early 1900s when horses were the primary mode of transportation.
Describing Oliver L. North who he tried to transfer out of the White House:
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.
