“Oh, my father sighs, if only we had a screwdriver that could unscrew wrongheaded ideas; if only we had a hammer to drive home good intentions; if only we had a pipe wrench to tighten hearts in everlasting love; a… — Stefano Benni Copy Share Image
“[T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.” — Stefano Benni Copy Share
“Oh, my father sighs, if only we had a screwdriver that could unscrew wrongheaded ideas; if only we had a hammer to drive home… — Stefano Benni Copy Share
“The winter was blasting its cold winds of dire portent into the tender face of springtime.” — Stefano Benni Copy Share
“Vidi che la banconota era tutta stropicciata, come l'assegno di Fefelli quel giorno a scuola, ma era una cosa diversa. I soldi si trasformano,… — Stefano Benni Copy Share
“Passiamo metà della vita a deridere ciò in cui altri credono, e l'altra metà a credere in ciò che altri deridono.” — Stefano Benni Copy Share
“[M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say but however . These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary to express… — Stefano Benni Copy Share
Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible. — Stefano Benni Copy Share
That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive. — Stefano Benni Copy Share
“Labella snapped shut her cell phone with a sigh, and looked down at her fingernails, delightfully painted a useless shade of purple.” — Stefano Benni Copy Share
