"Italy is not a country for beginners."

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Source : Tim Parks (2014). “Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

Tim Parks

#Country Quotes #Beginners Quotes

“My dad sent Frank Sinatra a dollar bill to autograph, and when it came back, signed, he had it framed: it was always up on the wall in whatever flat we were in.”
“He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.”
“Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind.”
“Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between.”

Source : Gayle Rubin (2011). “Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader”, p.174, Duke University Press
“It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.”
“Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior!”
“Nothing is an accident: it's always someone's fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated, alone with his or her anguish and guilt, and too penetrating a question can mean people are not able to face one another the next day.”

Source : Nadeem Aslam (2012). “Maps for Lost Lovers”, p.200, Random House India
“But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.”

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