"Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians."

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Source : "Piccola antologia del pensiero breve" by Franco Fontanini, Liguori Editore, (p. 12), 2007.

Indro Montanelli

“To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance. That implies that everyone else (such as the opposing football team, driver, student, parent) is de-selected, unfavored by God, and that I am special,above it all.”
“Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.”
“My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.”
“Apparently, the the only way to kill a lion is by rear naked choke. Personally, Iâ€™d just kick it in the head.”
“The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.”
“History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots.”

Source : Michel-Rolph Trouillot (2015). “Silencing the Past (20th anniversary edition): Power and the Production of History”, p.11, Beacon Press
“No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that.”
“the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.”

Source : Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.85, Ipso Books

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