"Literature is greater than any of us, dammit." — Romain Gary

"Literature is greater than any of us, dammit."

— Romain Gary

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19 Quotes by Romain Gary

Romain Gary has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.
Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is…
I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one…
With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold…
The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.
I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym…
A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the…
There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.
Gari in Russian means "burn!"... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned…
If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.
Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.
...the only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in

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