Carofiglio Gianrico Quotes & Sayings

For those few minutes I experienced a feeling of complete mastery, a perfect, unstable equilibrium. The kind of perfection that belongs only to things that are temporary, destined to end shortly. — Gianrico Carofiglio

The Golden Notebook for some reason surprised people but it was no more than you would hear women say in their kitchens every day in any country ... I was really astounded that some people were shocked. — Doris Lessing

Melissa arrived punctually a few minutes after eight. She was on foot and her attire was an incitement to crime. — Gianrico Carofiglio

I am of the old-fashioned conviction that reading is a pleasure to be carefully guarded at all times — Jenny Colgan

Turner's like an M&M or some shit; it's impossible to eat just one. Now that I've had a taste, I want all the colors. I kind of hate myself for it. — C.M. Stunich

Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand;
Better that they were not touched at all. — Ovid

I'm certainly getting a lot more mail ... that's basically it. — Sam Mendes

Somebody once said that all people are either intelligent or stupid, and either lazy or enterprising. There are lazy idiots, usually irrelevant and innocuous; then there are the intelligent and ambitious, who can be given important tasks to perform. The greatest achievements, in all fields, are nearly always the work of those intelligent and lazy. But one thing should be kept in mind: the most dangerous category, the people who are unfailingly responsible for the most appalling disasters, the ones you have to avoid at all costs, are enterprising idiots. — Gianrico Carofiglio

Been trying the soapy water and instant coffee method. Works somewhat, but boy it tastes terrible. I don't know how you guys can stand it. I'm going back to milk and espresso for my cappas. — David Lynch

Jurists, with rare exceptions, are unconsciously and tenaciously averse to clarity and brevity. — Gianrico Carofiglio

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship. — Anne Lamott

Together we proceeded on our way towards catastrophe. [Depressed lawyer and his unsuspecting clients.] — Gianrico Carofiglio

As a framer and defender of the Constitution [Madison] had no peer. — Garry Wills