Romain Gary Quotes
Romain Gary delivers sharp, dignified humor about humanity's resilience and the dark shadows of history.
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Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
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Hitler had condemned us to kill. Not even the most just causes are innocent.
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Disease Carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud.
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Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of mans superiority to all that befalls him.
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There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.
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Sometimes I have the feeling that we live in a dubbed movie and everybody moves their lips but the voices don't correspond. We are all post-synchronized and sometimes is very accomplished and looks natural.
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I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.
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If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.
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I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.
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The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.
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Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.
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I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.
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Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.
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A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.
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Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.