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1916–1991 Italy
Natalia Ginzburg (née Levi; 14 July 1916 – 7 October 1991) was an author who lived in Italy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, which often explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy.
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But it was incredible how fear and danger never produced ignoble words but always true ones, words that were torn from your very heart.
Tutti i nostri ieri (1952)
What we must remember above all in the education of our children is that their love of life should never weaken.
Le piccole virtù (1962)
Style is not something that can be improvised: one has to construct it, to make it.
Interview (1992)
A journalist recently said in the newspapers that writers should keep their mouths shut as much as possible and I think he was probably right. Better to write than to speak.
Interview (1992)
Every time I sit down to write a book I feel that I have to start from zero, that I have to re-learn how to write.
Interview (1992)
Human relationships have to be rediscovered every day. We have to remember constantly that every kind of meeting with our neighbor is a human action and so it is always evil or good, true or deceitful, a kindness or a sin.
Le piccole virtù (1962)
Fanfares of trumpets usually announced only small, futile things, it was a way fate had of teasing people. You felt a great exaltation and heard a loud fanfare of trumpets in the sky. But the serious things of life, on the contrary, took you by surprise, they spurted up all of a sudden like water.
Tutti i nostri ieri (1952)
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