15 Romain Gary Quotes

Romain Gary quotes

1. Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

2. Hitler had condemned us to kill. Not even the most just causes are innocent.

3. 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.

1. Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of mans superiority to all that befalls him.

2. There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.

6. 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.

7. The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

8. Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

9. I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.

10. Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.

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

12. Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.