“I never read contemporary fiction – with one exception: the works of Simenon concerned with Inspector Maigret.”

—  Georges Simenon

T. S. Eliot in the Sunday Times, 1952; cited from David Chinitz T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003) p. 56
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