"Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At……" — Romain Gary
"Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality."
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19 Quotes by Romain Gary
Romain Gary has 19 quotes on this site.
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When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.
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Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is…
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I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one…
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With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold…
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The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.
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I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym…
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A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the…
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There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.
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Gari in Russian means "burn!"... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned…
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If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.
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Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.
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...the only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in
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