Skip to content

The gossip that came back to me from fashionable dinners where people pitied poor Romain Gary, who must be a little sad, a little jealous of the meteoric rise in the literary firmament of his cousin Emile Ajar… I’ve had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.

— Romain Gary The Life and Death of Émile Ajar (1980)

Another quote →

More quotes by Romain Gary

During the war he was an airman and slaughtered civilians from on high.

Pseudo (1976)

Gari in Russian means "burn!"… I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off.

La Nuit Sera Calme [The Night Will Be Calm (1974)

A writer’s subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.

The Dance of Genghis Cohn (1967)

To renew myself, to relive, to be someone else, was always the great temptation of my existence.

When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

Tulipe (1946)

All Romain Gary quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Romain Gary (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.