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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.

— Natalia Ginzburg Interview (1992)

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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)

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)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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