Oriana Fallaci

Journalist

1929-06-29

Quotes by Oriana Fallaci

• i live on my books. on my writings, i live on my royalties: the percentage an author recieves on each sold copy. and i am proud of it. i am so even though such percentage is small or i should say irrelevant.

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• i live on my books. on my writings, i live on my royalties: the percentage an author recieves on each sold copy. and i am proud of it. i am so even though such percentage is small or i should say irrelevant.

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• I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

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• Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.

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• Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.

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• It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.

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• I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.

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• I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

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• Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

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• Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

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• I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

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• When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

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• When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.

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• We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

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• I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

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• Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.

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• Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art.

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• The questions are brutal because research of truth is a kind of surgery.

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• To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.

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