"Put a compass to paper and trace a circle. Then tell me which other country has such a concentration of places like Amalfi, Naples, Ischia, Procida, Sorrento, Positano, Pompeii, and Capri,"

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Source : "Captain Italia" by Alessandra Ilary, www.townandcountrymag.com. August 7, 2014.

Diego Della Valle

#Country Quotes #Circles Quotes #Paper Quotes

“The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.”
“I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.”

Source : "Intensive care". Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2002.
“I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily be the ones who best understand you. As if there weren't far too much understanding in the world already; above all, that understanding between lovers, celebrated in song and story, which is actually such torture that no two of them can bear it without frequent separations or fights.”
“I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.”
“The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.”
“Most of the time when something goes badâ€”a marriage, a war, a run of good luckâ€”you donâ€™t know it. Itâ€™s like in the cartoons, only less funny. You run off the cliff and just keep goingâ€”talking, listening to music, making plans, for years sometimesâ€”except no announcer interrupts to say â€˜Excuse me, collect call for Mr. Coyoteâ€™ to make you notice and make us laugh. You just wake up and fall.”
“We would like to have a great future, so we need to think about the urban philosophy, the urban problems, and the construction of the city. That's the new politics, maybe.”
“Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.”

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