| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 12744 |
| QUOTATION: | When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Jean Cocteau (18891963), French author, filmmaker. (Originally published 1918). Le Coq et lArlequin, Le Rappel à LOrdre (1926), repr. In Collected Works, vol. 9 (1950). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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