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Quotes by Italian Authors
"People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not."
"There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry."
"I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US."
"The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed."
"The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most."
"Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs."
"I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story."
"Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it."
"Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?"
"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."
"There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember."
"The rights of the weak are not weaker rights, but are completely equal to the rights of the strong."
"It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history."
"I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space."
"I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me."
"We shall meet again before long to march to new triumphs."
"There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed."
"A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are."
"Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?"
"Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love."
"To make them forget how bad human beings are, they were taught too insistently that bears are good. Instead of being told honestly what humans are and what bears are."
"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."
"People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked."
"Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do."
"A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis."
"He is always on the brink of suicide... because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives."
"To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio."
"Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations."
"It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation."
"I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to."
"Don't get married to an actress because they're also actresses in bed."
"And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own."
"Because in this way all I did was to accumulate past after past behind me, multiplying the pasts, and if one life was too dense and ramified and embroiled for me to bear it always with me, imagine so many lives, each with its own past and the pasts of the other lives that continue to become entangled one with the others."
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