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Quotes by Italian Authors
"If the audience never understands the plot, it can be counted on to be attentive to the very end."
"Eyes that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness."
"When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger."
"An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment."
"After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper."
"My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search."
"The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time."
"Whoever you are, you will not write this book. I can tell you nothing. Do not call me again. Ever."
"All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part."
"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."
"I think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological data... I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate's report of scientists against the theory of man-made global warming."
"True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know."
"Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another."
"I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like."
"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."
"We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things."
"A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life."
"Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived."
"The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him."
"This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently."
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."
"The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace."
"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."
"All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance."
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