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Quotes by Italian Authors
"I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh."
"Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point."
"Whoever you are, you will not write this book. I can tell you nothing. Do not call me again. Ever."
"I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years."
"Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction."
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
"Always I pay. Always I pay. How do you know Gelli? What do you want? How much do you want?"
"I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic."
"When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried in my head 'till I can write them down, even to the last note. Then I do not alter a jot."
"Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people."
"Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy."
"If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love."
"I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools."
"Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it."
"A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational."
"The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way."
"But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know."
"Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress."
"There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising."
"The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand."
"Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry."
"People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked."
"The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art."
"How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child."
"Reason in man is rather like God in the world."
"Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole."
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