Romain Gary
Novelist
1914-05-08
Quotes by Romain Gary
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An unbearable reality, combined with the impossibility to change it, tends to lead to abstractions for abstraction's sake, and unreality becomes more realistic than reality itself, more true, more convincing, simply because it looks at you with the eyes of justice.
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-I love you, Lenny.-From the diaphragm.-What are you talking about?-You have to say it from the diaphragm. That's a muscle in here. Real deep, not from the throat. I tried to be an actor once and that's the first thing they told me. That's when I quit. I just didn't have that much in my diaphragm.
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...the most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicked in the ass---.
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...the most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicked in the ass---.
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-I love you, Lenny.-From the diaphragm.-What are you talking about?-You have to say it from the diaphragm. That's a muscle in here. Real deep, not from the throat. I tried to be an actor once and that's the first thing they told me. That's when I quit. I just didn't have that much in my diaphragm.
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An unbearable reality, combined with the impossibility to change it, tends to lead to abstractions for abstraction's sake, and unreality becomes more realistic than reality itself, more true, more convincing, simply because it looks at you with the eyes of justice.
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Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
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Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration to man's superiority to all that befalls him.
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Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.
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