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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

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If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.

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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.

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I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.

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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

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To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.

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A secret is powerful when it is empty.

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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Novelist

Born: January 5th, 1932

Died: February 19th, 2016

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