Century Quote by Alberto Moravia

“I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.”

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This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.

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A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.

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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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The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.

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You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.

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I do not foresee a time when I shall feel that I have nothing to say.

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