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Alberto Moravia has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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. I trust…
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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 is forced,…
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It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.
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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 not resolve…
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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 autobiography; I…
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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 than the…
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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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Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
— George Eliot
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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
— Seneca the Younger
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Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven.
— William Romaine
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In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes…
— Bob Blumer
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
— Sallust
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Money makes even bastards legitimate.
— Billy Wilder
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At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability…
— Don Nickles
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Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long,…
— Nate Ruess
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Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!
— Michel Gondry
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Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.
— Stephen Walt
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