Ромен Гари цитаты
Ромен Гари
Дата рождения: 21. Май 1914
Дата смерти: 2. Декабрь 1980
Другие имена: Roman Kacew
Роме́н Гари́ — французский писатель еврейского происхождения, литературный мистификатор, кинорежиссёр, военный, дипломат.
Дважды лауреат Гонкуровской премии .
Цитаты Ромен Гари
„I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off.“
— Romain Gary
Context: Gari in Russian means "burn!"… I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off.
La Nuit Sera Calme [The Night Will Be Calm] (1974)
„As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just… get better.“
— Romain Gary, книга Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
„I’ve had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.“
— Romain Gary
Context: The gossip that came back to me from fashionable dinners where people pitied poor Romain Gary, who must be a little sad, a little jealous of the meteoric rise in the literary firmament of his cousin Emile Ajar… I’ve had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.
The Life and Death of Émile Ajar (1980), an essay written prior to his suicide, as quoted in "Romain Gary: A Short Biography" by Madeleine Schwartz, at The Harvard Advocate http://www.theharvardadvocate.com/content/romain-gary-short-biography
„Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.“
— Romain Gary
As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 223
„Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.“
— Romain Gary, книга Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
„There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.“
— Romain Gary
Interview (1970), republished in Le Judaïsme n’est pas une Question de Sang [Judaism Isn’t About Blood] (2008) by Les éditions de l’Herne, as quoted in "A Chameleon on Show" in Forward (12 January 2011) http://www.forward.com/articles/134609/
„Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud.“
— Romain Gary
Introduction to The Plague (1946) by Albert Camus, as translated in a 1962 edition.
