Andrea Camilleri Quotes
Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun salutes on the feast day of the local patron saint, or furniture being moved by the slime-buckets living upstairs, and go right on sleeping soundly. But the ringing of the telephone, the triumphal march of the cell phone, or the doorbell, no: Those are all sounds of summons in response to which the civilzed man (ha-ha!) has no choice but to surface from the depths of slumber and answer.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
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When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!
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Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at many restaurants and could only drink from water fountains marked 'Colored.' When I went to the movies, I would have to sit in the Colored balcony.
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I can't not be who I am.
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You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.
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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
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I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.
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No damn man kills me and lives.
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I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.
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I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.
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There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
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We do not need an Osami <sic> bin Laden leading us.
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How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."
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Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun salutes on the feast day of the local patron saint, or furniture being moved by the slime-buckets living upstairs, and go right on sleeping soundly. But the ringing of the telephone, the triumphal march of the cell phone, or the doorbell, no: Those are all sounds of summons in response to which the civilzed man (ha-ha!) has no choice but to surface from the depths of slumber and answer.
