Romain Gary
Romain Gary
Romain Gary, born Roman Kacew and also known by pen names such as Émile Ajar, was a French diplomat, novelist, film director and World War II aviator of Litvak origin. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt twice under two names...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 May 1914
CountryRussian Federation
Romain Gary quotes about
fun bye good-bye
I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.
people want firsts
The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.
men sometimes dies
Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.
faces normal way
...the only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in
positive laughter work
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
war loser winner
When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.
mother dog condolences
With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold food until your days end. After that, each time a woman holds you in her arms and against her chest, these are merely condolences. You always come back to yell at your mother's grave like an abandoned dog. Never again, never again, never again.
dark mushrooms clouds
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.