Quote by Tim Parks

“It was to be, and still is, an absolute staple of the Italian railways, whether public or private, that in some way or other,…

— Tim Parks

“A big gloomy space was piled with bags, boxes, suitcases, parcels, umbrellas. There were a few shelves but no apparent order. Some of the…

— Tim Parks

“Government and unions have negotiated a minimum service to be maintained during strikes.”

— Tim Parks

“It makes the nation possible and allows it to remain fragmented, allows people to live double lives.”

— Tim Parks

“Your ticket says via Pordenone,” he told me. “Don’t you read your documento di viaggio?” I was fascinated. What kind of man is it…

— Tim Parks

Italy is not a country for beginners.

— Tim Parks

“In America the lack of investment in train travel speaks eloquently of a country always ready to appear righteous but pathologically averse to surrendering…

— Tim Parks

“It took Descartes to deduce that God would not wish to deceive us. The world must be as it appears to be, the Frenchman…

— Tim Parks

“Once, when the minibar boy saw me promptly dump my receipt in the ashtray, he warned me that I was legally obliged to retain…

— Tim Parks

“[T]hese three days of meditation have revealed to me that every thought I think is, in one way or another, an ugly, fatuous form…

— Tim Parks

“All writing is a sin against speechlessness,’ Beckett had said. He would have stopped, I thought, if he could.”

— Tim Parks

“it was through constructing a network of railways across some of Europe’s most arduous terrain that the newly formed Italian nation won a reputation…

— Tim Parks