"The novel as we knew it in the……" — Alberto Moravia
"The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce."
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Alberto Moravia
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24 Quotes by Alberto Moravia
Alberto Moravia has 24 quotes on this site.
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When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way.…
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Because the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he…
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It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free…
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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
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In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do…
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The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
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War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.
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Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real…
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I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.
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I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.
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Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather…
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Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for…
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