"The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity."

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Source : Andrea Camilleri (2010). “The Terracotta Dog”, p.181, Pan Macmillan

Andrea Camilleri

#Memories Quotes #Pity Quotes

“Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.”
“Some people are just destined to be together. That's just the way it is.”
“A lot of the kind of comedy that I do comes out of real human moments. For them to work, they have to be truthful kinds of things that people in the audience can go, "Yes, I've experienced that myself!"”
“When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.”
“Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.”
“I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.”

Source : The George Washington University Interview, nsarchive2.gwu.edu. January 18, 1997.
“I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.”
“There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.”

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