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But it is not a book about [Fantozzi] at all, it is just a collection of Fantozzi stories that I wrote for L'Europeo, with a few extra semicolons, jotted down at random. Writing will never be my job, it's something I do for fun.

— Paolo Villaggio

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Fantozzi is the prototype of the poor wretch, the quintessence of nothingness.

Fantozzi is also a therapist: he freed Italians from the fear of being Italian.

I am enraged by this tendency, which exists above all in Italy, perhaps because of its Catholic roots, to recognize the merits of artists only after their death. As if death ennobled them.

Fantozzi at that time was a happy wretch; at least he had a steady job.

TV is more dangerous because it is transparent: it magnifies flaws.

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