Norman Lewis Quotes
1908–2003 England
Norman Lewis (28 June 1908 – 22 July 2003) was an influential British journalist and a prolific travel author.
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Also known as: Norman Lewis, Norman lewis
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All things in Naples are arranged with as much civility as possible.
Nothing, absolutely nothing that can be tackled by the human digestive system is wasted in Naples.
If it is a fact that in Naples everything is for sale, how much more true must this be in Poggio Reale?
In this country there are fifty lawyers to every one policeman, and the lawyers expect to win.
There are no police to deal with the thousands of squalid little crimes like this committed every day in the city.
You will be surprised what psychological motivation there is in your having physical possession of the books you plan to read.
Inexplicably no boats are allowed out, but nothing is said in the proclamation about rafts. Everyone improvises and adapts.
The facts are, as every Italian will admit, that the South is virtually a colony of the industrialised North.
The Italians of the South live, just as Africans do, on bread dipped in olive oil.
There is an inherent Mediterranean austerity much in evidence in the Naples area, in Sorrento and Capri, which seems to come from the sea, since it is hardly to be found inland.
Naples is extraordinary in every way.
He proved to be one of the four thousand lawyers of Naples, ninety per cent of whom – surplus to the needs of the courts – had never practised, and who for the most part lived in extreme penury.
A problem has arisen. Although I handed in my army rations to the cook, with the intention of living on these, nobody has taken me seriously, nor believed that any human being in his right mind and able to eat pasta would refrain from doing so.