"That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive."

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Source : Stefano Benni, Antony Shugaar (2006). “Margherita Dolce Vita”, Europa Editions Incorporated

Stefano Benni

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“True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.”
“This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.”
“Each one of us has both; good and evil virtues. Those who decide to focus on the good ones succeed in life.”
“You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.”
“To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.”
“When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.”
“Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.”
“I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. â€¦ It's the party at present in power.”

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