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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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A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.
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Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.
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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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Shot fakes and ball fakes work. No one uses more than Wisconsin. It's amazing how many people don't use them
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I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you…
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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…
— Alberto Moravia
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Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s…
— J. L. Carr
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If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.
— Lukas Foss
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As Mr. Nagle so competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact until recently there were only 9 users. But…
— Bertrand Meyer
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