“Since when one has started dreaming, there were so many cries for help and so many bottles thrown into the sea, that it is amazing we still can see the sea when we should see only bottles.” — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior — Romain Gary Copy Share
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
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
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
“Loyalty is not the kind of exclusive deal, it's just a sincere communication and the same values.” — Romain Gary Copy Share
“...all intolerable local situations have become world situations, with the result that the whole world has become a local situation, here, under your nose,… — Romain Gary Copy Share
“Humor is a passive form of terrorism, of resistance, and of pseudo-aggression that has less to do with changing the world than with mental… — Romain Gary Copy Share