Romain Gary quotes
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“With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold food until your days end. After that, each time a woman holds you in her arms and against her chest, these are merely condolences. You always come back to yell at your mother's grave like an abandoned dog. Never again, never again, never again.”
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“Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.”
-- Romain GarySource : Romain Gary (1987). “Promise at Dawn”, p.130, New Directions Publishing
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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 a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud.”
-- Romain GarySource : Introduction to "The Plague" by Albert Camus, 1962 edition,
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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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“They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior”
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“When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.”
-- Romain GarySource : "Tulipe". Book by Romain Gary, 1946.
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“As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.”
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“If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.”
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“I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.”
-- Romain GarySource : Romain Gary (1983). “King Solomon”, Harvill Press
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“Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.”
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“Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.”
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“...the only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in”
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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 whole world there.”
-- Romain GarySource : Romain Gary (1968). “The Dance of Genghis Cohn”, New American Library of Canada
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“I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.”
-- Romain GarySource : Romain Gary (1987). “Promise at Dawn”, p.19, New Directions Publishing
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“I am weak, I say with no presumptions. I have no merit, I note it, that is all. There are times that I feel so weak there most be a mistake, and as I don't know what I mean with this, I am not going to say anything else”
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“'Gari' in Russian means "burn!"... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my 'I' is burned off.”
-- Romain GarySource : "'La Nuit Sera Calme' ('The Night Will Be Calm')". Book by Romain Gary, 1974.
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“I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.”
-- Romain GarySource : Romain Gary (1961). “PROMISE AT DAWN”
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“Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.”
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“There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.”
-- Romain GarySource : "A Chameleon on Show" by Benjamin Ivry, forward.com. January 12, 2011.
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