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I've never studied Italian, I learned it through contact with people, reading children's books and watching cartoons. But now I can even tackle Dante.

— Nicolai Lilin

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From an interview with Maurizio Crosetti (16 December 2009), "Lilin, vita blindata Faccio il tatuatore in clandestinità", Repubblica.it

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They've installed their Jewish boy to run this degraded land and he rightly doesn't want to end the war.

We can do without the Americans and they can't stand it.

I work with news, on my private Telegram channel; therefore, I have people who pay me to be informed.

I hoped to continue working in this environment, but, after the publication of my two novels, my face is just too well-known.

Not only have I never gone to school, but not even the Holden school, which keeps ignoring me anyway.

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