Andrea Camilleri quotes
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“Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never needs to ask, because the other understands on his own accordingly.”
-- Andrea CamilleriSource : Andrea Camilleri (2012). “Inspector Montalbano: The first three novels in the series”, p.449, Pan Macmillan
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“Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention, like cats that, keeping their eyes closed as if asleep, are actually counting the stars.”
-- Andrea CamilleriSource : Andrea Camilleri (2010). “The Snack Thief”, p.125, Pan Macmillan
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“Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun salutes on the feast day of the local patron saint, or furniture being moved by the slime-buckets living upstairs, and go right on sleeping soundly. But the ringing of the telephone, the triumphal march of the cell phone, or the doorbell, no: Those are all sounds of summons in response to which the civilzed man (ha-ha!) has no choice but to surface from the depths of slumber and answer.”
-- Andrea CamilleriSource : Andrea Camilleri (2009). “August Heat”, p.11, Penguin
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“What do two women friends usually do when they see each other? We talked, we watched television, we listened to music Sometimes we did nothing at all. It was a pleasure just to know the other one was there.”
-- Andrea CamilleriSource : Andrea Camilleri (2010). “The Voice of the Violin”, p.44, Pan Macmillan
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“The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.”
-- Andrea CamilleriSource : Andrea Camilleri (2010). “The Terracotta Dog”, p.181, Pan Macmillan
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“Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.”
-- Andrea CamilleriSource : Andrea Camilleri (2010). “The Track of Sand”, p.35, Penguin
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“But then why, when talking on the phone, did they quarrel, on average at least once every four sentences? Maybe, though the inspector, it was an effect of the distance between them becoming less and less tolerable with each passing day, since as we grow old - for every now and then one must, yes, look reality in the eye and call things by their proper names - we feel more keenly the need to have the person we love beside us.”
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“Sicily has suffered 13 foreign dominations from which she has taken both the best and the worst. The sequence of different cultures has made Sicily a fascinating place, quite unlike any other.”
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Source : "AS Byatt: woman of letters and ...science!". "All In The Mind" with Antonia Byatt, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2010.
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“In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.”
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“Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.”
Source : Alec Wilkinson (2012). “The Ice Balloon”, p.20, HarperCollins UK
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