Donna Leon Quotes
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I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure could plot.
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I don't go to the movies because I don't like films.
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And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.
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This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner?
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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.
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I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.
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The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.
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There has been a lot of suspicious, maybe hazing, deaths in the last couple of years-in the last five or six years.
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I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.
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Favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.
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We buy things. We wear them or put them on our walls, or sit on them, but anyone who wants to can take them away from us. Or break them. ... Long after he's dead, someone else will own those stupid little boxes, and then someone after him, just as someone owned them before he did. But no one ever thinks of that: objects survive us and go on living. It's stupid to believe we own them. And it's sinful for them to be so important.