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.
Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. - Romain Gary
Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.
- Romain Gary
When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated. - Romain Gary
When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.
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 sl… - Romain Gary
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 sl…
The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there. - Romain Gary
The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. - Romain Gary
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there. - Romain Gary
A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.
If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance. - Romain Gary
If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.
As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better. - Romain Gary
As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.
Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried. - Romain Gary
Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.
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