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
moving voice feelings
Sometimes I have the feeling that we live in a dubbed movie and everybody moves their lips but the voices don't correspond. We are all post-synchronized and sometimes is very accomplished and looks natural.
exactly people
The avantgarde are people who dont exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.
humor humorous mans
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of mans superiority to all that befalls him.
mean fire trials
Gari in Russian means "burn!"... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off.
jewish-history auschwitz
There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.
literature greater
Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.
mistake mean say-anything
I am weak, I say with no presumptions. I have no merit, I note it, that is all. There are times that I feel so weak there most be a mistake, and as I don't know what I mean with this, I am not going to say anything else
inspirational reality literature
Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.
matter facts world
A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.
mother dream inspiration
I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.
thinking long get-better
As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.
men race track
I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.
ignorance horizon ifs
If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.
excess interiors exterior
They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior