"The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked."

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Source : "Controcorrente 1974-1986". Book by Indro Montanelli, 1987.

Indro Montanelli

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“I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.”
“There's a difference between racism and "I don't know any better. I'm clueless." Racism is like, "I'm trying to make you feel bad." That's racism.”
“I think it is fair to say that it is under a great deal of stress, and if I am asking for significant changes, it is because the world is going through significant changes.”
“There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate when combined with a rather abstract view of a language as a set of elements and rules for combining these. For the result is to divorce enquiry into meaning from attention to the way words - and gestures, facial expressions, rituals and so on - are embedded in practices, in what Wittgenstein called 'the stream of life'.”

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“In principle, I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him”
“[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion, 'til they impose on themselves that very hard task of laboring through life without ever knowing a human creature to whom they can make the proper use of language and freely speak the dictates of their hearts!”
“I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them.”
“I didn't understand how. But the toilets had responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing...”

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