Gaetano Salvemini famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.

  • There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.

  • The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.

  • The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.

  • Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

  • Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

  • The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

  • The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

  • The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar.

  • Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.