Leonardo Sciascia quotes
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“The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.”
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“A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.”
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“I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.”
-- Leonardo SciasciaSource : Leonardo Sciascia, Marcelle Padovani, James Marcus (1994). “Sicily as metaphor”, Marlboro Pr
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“The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. Leonardo Sciascia”
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“All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination.”
-- Leonardo Sciascia
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“It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.”
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“The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.”
Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.2, Courier Corporation
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“Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.”
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“I had a nice read on the putt and I said to myself, 'This is for you, Jesus, ' and knocked it in.”
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“She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.”
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