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" I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk. "

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" The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period. "

" I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant. "

" I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple! "

" I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics. "

" I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism. "

" Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient? "

" I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It's not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see? "

" The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism. "

" What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology. "

" Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare. "

" Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion. "

" I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. "

" To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach! "

" I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism. "

" I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test. "

" The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe. "

" I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion. "

" When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste. "

" It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man. "

" The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette. "

" I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work. "

" I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of. "

" I am a danger to myself if I get angry. "

" Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face. "

" Heroes can be sweet. "

" I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers. "

" We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only. "

" I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans. "

" Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader. "

" The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom. "