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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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I may play a total madman on TV, but I'm really just a very unbalanced guy at home. However, when it comes…
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About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy).
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My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it.
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I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.
— Alberto Moravia
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Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the…
— Gabrielle Roth
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I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to…
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The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining…
— Georg Cantor
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My method is related to an attempt to do something that might be understood by today's world, or that could at least…
— Gerhard Richter
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I've been touted for my guacamole. I'll stand by my method. People have asked me to come to their home and prepare…
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My method of helping someone is saying, 'Wow, you look amazing. Let me help you look even better.' I think tearing someone…
— Carson Kressley
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It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start…
— Edward Hopper
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You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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