“He gave up. It was no use. She wasn’t listening. He was finding himself in a situation as old as mankind itself: reason against superstition.” — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
“-Would you wish us to invest it for you? -No, I would like you to set up a trust for dumb animals. -What kind of dumb animals do you have in mind, Miss Donahue? -Oh, stray dogs. Rats. Birds. -We… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have the feeling that we live in a dubbed movie and everybody moves their lips but the voices don't correspond. We are… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
“He might all the same do a little something for us. We’re on our backs, doesn’t He see?' 'I’m doing my best, I tell… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
“Remember - when you came back from the states thirty years ago, and you had caught on to the importance of putting up a… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
“He had even tried the violin a few years earlier. Anything to switch talents, but there was no escape. The compulsion was identical to… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
I am weak, I say with no presumptions. I have no merit, I note it, that is all. There are times that I feel… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there. — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
