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- We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
- Tragedy is the highest form of art.
- A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.
- Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.
- The regional voice is the universal voice.
- It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.
- "Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life.
- It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.
- Food doesn't exist, but can only be invented. And reinvented.
- I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.
- Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving.
- Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!
- The despairing soul is a rebel.
- I am always reading or thinking about reading.
- The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.
- Never be ashamed of your subject, and of your passion for your subject.
- The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward.
- Yet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me.
- Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard.
- Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise.
- I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.
- I really love to set things in places that are real to me.
- My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted.
- One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.
- Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento