Marcel Proust facts
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Famous writers George Orwell, Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, and Marcel Proust all liked to write from their bed.
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The french novelist Marcel Proust spent the last three years of his life mostly confined to his bedroom, sleeping during the day and working at night to complete his novel (In Search of Lost Time).
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Marcel Proust spent twenty years writing "In Search of Lost Time" and completed it just hours before his death.
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The non-winners of Nobel Prize in Literature include Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Nabokov, Mark Twain, Marcel Proust, Graham Greene, Isak Dinesen, Flannery O'Connor and John Updike.
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A book written by Marcel Proust called 'À la recherche du temps perdu' (In search of lost time) is widely accepted to be the longest book ever written with around 9,609,000 characters compared to the average books 500,000 characters.
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Marcel Proust loved the odor of asparagus-pee, going so far as to compare its scent to that of an "aromatic perfume."
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Marcel Proust loved asparagus pee smell, as it, "transforms my chamber-pot into a flask of perfume."
