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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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Our ideals are our better selves.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.
— Robert Byrd
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Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and…
— William J. Clinton
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In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in…
— Unknown Author
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It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.
— Bertrand Russell
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We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be,…
— Pema Chodron
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
— Joseph Joubert
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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
— George Bernard Shaw
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In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our…
— Pico Iyer
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We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals…
— Barack Obama
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We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our…
— Barack Obama
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Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists…
— Samuel Ullman
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