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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries."
"A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, 'How could I have lived without reading it!' and also, 'What a pity I did not read it in my youth!' Well, these statements do not have much meaning, especially the second, because after he has read that book, his life becomes the life of a person who has read that book, and it is of little importance whether he read it early or late, because now his life before that reading also assumes a form shaped by that reading."
"But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic."
"The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them."
"At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being."
"Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion."
"Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features."
"We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved."
"I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart."
"If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters."
"My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles."
"It's a fantastic review. Sixty percent of the American reviews are sensational, 20% are mixed, not so good."
"I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do."
"I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother."
"We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being."
"Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher."
"Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism."
"Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while."
"Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more."
"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child."
"There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing."
"It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books."
"Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand."
"Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime."
"The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell?"
"Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.Well, it's all over. We have to start again from the beginning, asking one another what's going on."
"Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone."
"I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready."
"Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness."
"Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics."
"Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told."
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