| Author Quoted | Jean Paul Sartre |
| Title Quoted | Huis Clos |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1960/05/06 |
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| Quotation | I do not have much interest in Sartre, he puts me to sleep, as if he were deliberately dull: assommant is a much better word. He shaves me, as the French say. He beats me over the head with his dullness, though Huis Clos strikes me as a good and somewhat puritanical play. The other thing of his I have tried to read, La Nausee, is drab and stupid. |
| Quotation Source | The Courage for Truth: Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers.; Selected and edited by Christine M. Bochen. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1993, p. 67 |
| Letter to | Czeslaw Milosz |
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