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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual."
"Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration."
"Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure."
"I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to Vancouver and all places in between."
"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."
"And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight."
"Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist."
"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."
"You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools."
"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has."
"It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground."
"War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms."
"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
"I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body."
"The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty."
"And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director."
"The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes."
"The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer."
"What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same."
"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."
"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
"A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests."
"The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image."
"At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds."
"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."
"True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does."
"I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it."
"To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked."
"I'm not invited. I'm not on the A list, haven't been on it in 20 years and my feet have never trod its red fluffy carpets."
"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage."
"I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions."
"By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel."
"Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face."
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