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Natalia Ginzburg

"My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know nothing about the value of the things I am able to write. I know that writing is my vocation. When I sit down to write I feel extraordinarily at ease, and I move in an element which, it seems to me, I know extraordinarily well; I use tools that are familiar to me and they fit snugly in my hands. But when I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers."

Source : Natalia Ginzburg (2017). “The Little Virtues: Essays”, p.49, Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

Natalia Ginzburg

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“No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.”
“Learn to live more in the Self. Come down a little bit to eat and talk as necessary.”
“Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).”
“You know all my life I've hated funerals. The fuss and bother never brings anybody back. It just spoils remembering them as they really are. And when I see people actually facing it that way, I have to act like a sap.”
“Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.”
“Awaken and rejoice. Awaken and be alive. Awaken to the possibility of being fulfilled.”
“Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.”
“He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if any compromise were made of it. He knew we were seekers after ease, suspicious, egotistic, and stubborn to a fault. He also knew that none of us would have continued our careers unless we had always been, and still were, helpless before this opportunity to take a chance.”

Source : Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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