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Donna Leon Quotes

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military Picture Quote #1

This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that’s the way it is. What’s for dinner ? Picture Quote #1

I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years Picture Quote #1

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can’t read that Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I love music. But I’ve never owned a TV in my adult life, and I’ve never lived in a place with a television Picture Quote #1

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I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book Picture Quote #1

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James Picture Quote #1

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it Picture Quote #1

Favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people Picture Quote #1

I don’t go to the movies because I don’t like films Picture Quote #1

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person Picture Quote #1

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The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort Picture Quote #1

Sit around the bars, talked to people, ate in the restaurants, and chatted with the old ladies on the street. Fishermen are pretty much that way Picture Quote #1

I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not Picture Quote #1

I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don’t know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it’s in because there are 14 of them now Picture Quote #1

And I don’t want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don’t like that Picture Quote #1

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can’t read that Picture Quote #1

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I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun Picture Quote #1

I never know what’s going to happen in a novel. I don’t have a plan or an outline Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will Picture Quote #1

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I have always had a particular antagonism for the military (Donna Leon Quotes) This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that’s the way it is. What’s for dinner ? (Donna Leon Quotes) I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years. (Donna Leon Quotes) So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can’t read that. (Donna Leon Quotes) 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. (Donna Leon Quotes) I love music. But I’ve never owned a TV in my adult life, and I’ve never lived in a place with a television (Donna Leon Quotes) I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book (Donna Leon Quotes) All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James (Donna Leon Quotes) Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it (Donna Leon Quotes) Favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people (Donna Leon Quotes) I don’t go to the movies because I don’t like films (Donna Leon Quotes) I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person (Donna Leon Quotes) The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort (Donna Leon Quotes) Sit around the bars, talked to people, ate in the restaurants, and chatted with the old ladies on the street. Fishermen are pretty much that way (Donna Leon Quotes) I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not (Donna Leon Quotes) I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don’t know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it’s in because there are 14 of them now (Donna Leon Quotes) And I don’t want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don’t like that (Donna Leon Quotes) So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can’t read that (Donna Leon Quotes) I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun (Donna Leon Quotes) I never know what’s going to happen in a novel. I don’t have a plan or an outline (Donna Leon Quotes) 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 (Donna Leon Quotes) Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will (Donna Leon Quotes)