Listening to someone talk isn'tat all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape. — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't…out of respect for DeGaulle… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all about. My guess is that it's just a gigantic hoax, invented to keep people quiet and diverted. Everyone talks about love: the priests, the advertising posters, the literati, and the politicians, those of them who make… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share
Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share
I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work. — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“i live on my books. on my writings, i live on my royalties: the percentage an author recieves on each sold copy. and i… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
