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Donna Leon Quotes

American - Author | September 29, 1942 -

I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.

Fun Happy Be Happy Have Fun Rich

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

Loyalty City Feel Affection Rather

The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.

Hope Ending Without Sort Any

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

Military Always Antagonism Had

I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.

Lunch Go Know Never Something Going

I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.

Justice Find Stop Person Nothing

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.

Work Nature Best People Better Know

I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now.

Memory Me Book Remember Know Now

My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.

Work Dog Father Mother Brother New

A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact.

Story Care Always Seem Fine Begins

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

Famous Person Pleasure Take Being

Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its agencies.

Moral Profound Suspicion Most Than

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